Each year the OAS Secretary General publishes a proposed Program-Budget for the coming calendar year. The OAS General Assembly meets in a Special Session to approve the Program-Budget. Find these documents from 1998-2013 here.
Each year in April, the OAS Board of External Auditors publishes a report covering the previous calendar year’s financial results. Reports covering 1996-2016 may be found here.
Approximately six weeks after the end of each semester, the OAS publishes a Semiannual Management and Performance Report, which since 2013 includes reporting on programmatic results. The full texts may be found here.
Here you will find data on the Human Resources of the OAS, including its organizational structure, each organizational unit’s staffing, vacant posts, and performance contracts.
The OAS executes a variety of projects funded by donors. Evaluation reports are commissioned by donors. Reports of these evaluations may be found here.
The Inspector General provides the Secretary General with reports on the audits, investigations, and inspections conducted. These reports are made available to the Permanent Council. More information may be found here.
The OAS has discussed for several years the real estate issue, the funding required for maintenance and repairs, as well as the deferred maintenance of its historic buildings. The General Secretariat has provided a series of options for funding it. The most recent document, reflecting the current status of the Strategy, is CP/CAAP-3211/13 rev. 4.
Here you will find information related to the GS/OAS Procurement Operations, including a list of procurement notices for formal bids, links to the performance contract and travel control measure reports, the applicable procurement rules and regulations, and the training and qualifications of its staff.
The OAS Treasurer certifies the financial statements of all funds managed or administered by the GS/OAS. Here you will find the latest general purpose financial reports for the main OAS funds, as well as OAS Quarterly Financial Reports (QFRs).
Every year the GS/OAS publishes the annual operating plans for all areas of the Organization, used to aid in the formulation of the annual budget and as a way to provide follow-up on institutional mandates.
Here you will find information related to the OAS Strategic Plan 2016-2020, including its design, preparation and approval.
OAS to Honor African Heritage in the Americas with a Celebration of its Cultural Legacy
February 22, 2017
The Organization of American States (OAS) will join the celebration of "Black History Month and the International Decade for People of African Descent" TOMORROW, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 with a celebration on "Afro-Inspired Culture in the Americas," which will take place in the Hall of the Americas at the headquarters of the Organization in Washington, DC.
The event will feature several specialists on the influence of African culture in the Americas:
• Demont Hussey, from Jamaica, will speak about the history of reggae music
• James Lovell and Vincent Martinez of Belize will play Afro-Garifuna jazz music
• Von Martin, from Trinidad and Tobago, will speak about the history of the Trinitarian drums
• Dr. Miguel Vilar, from National Geographic's "Ancestral Discoveries" team, will present the testimony of Henry Jímenez, who in 2016 took the DNA test kit.
• Music and dance performances such as the Steel Pan Trinitarian Drums and the Congo Dance.
Secretary General Luis Almagro and Assistant Secretary General Nestor Mendez will participate in the event, in which the OAS Secretary for Access to Rights and Equity, Ideli Salvatti, will present the OAS Action Plan for the "International Decade for People of African Descent."
The event is organized by Assistant Secretary General Méndez and the Permanent Missions to the OAS of Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, the United States, Honduras, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela; and the Embassy and the Permanent Mission of Haiti.
As part of the celebration, at 16:00 EST (21:00 GMT), an art exhibition will be inaugurated at the Marcus Garvey Cultural Hall.
The exhibition displays works of art on loan from, among others, the Permanent Missions of Belize, Costa Rica, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay, as well as the Permanent Observer Mission of France and staff of the OAS General Secretariat. The exhibition will be open to the public until February 28.
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