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 Officially Launch Inter-American Year of Culture
March 21, 2011
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI) will launch the Inter-American Year of Culture on Wednesday, March 23, in a joint session that will feature presentations by guest experts who will discuss the issue of culture and its relationships to other areas of public policy, such as civic education, the strengthening of democracy, economic development, job creation, the fight against poverty, and social inclusion.
The event will open with remarks by the Chair of the Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of the United States to the OAS, Ambassador Carmen Lomellin, and will include remarks by OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza as well as the Chair of CEPCIDI and Permanent Representative of Colombia to the OAS, Ambassador Luis Alfonso Hoyos Aristizabal. Other presentations will be made by the Vice Chair of the Inter-American Committee on Culture and Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Community Development and Culture of Barbados, Ms. Celia Toppin, and by the OAS Director of the Office of Education and Culture in the Department of Human Development, Lenore Yaffee García.
The session will also feature a presentation titled, “The Importance of Cultural Policies in the National Reality: The Ministry of Culture of Peru as a Vector of Development,” by Mr. Bernardo Roca-Rey, Vice Minister of Heritage and Cultural Industries in the Ministry of Culture of Peru, as well as one titled, “Culture and New Technologies as Means for Social Inclusion and Employment Generation,” by Mr. Carlos Argüello, Founder and Director of "Studio C" in Guatemala.
WHAT: Joint meeting of the Permanent Council and the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI) to launch the Inter-American Year of Culture
WHEN: Wednesday, March 23, 2011, at 11:00 (15:00 GMT)