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.
Drug control experts and top U.S. Government Officials will speak at a press conference this Thursday, November 19, during the Forty-Sixth Regular Session of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD 46) of the Organization of American States (OAS), taking place Nov. 18-20 in Miami, Florida.
Speakers at the press conference will be David Johnson, U.S. Department of State Assistant Secretary for Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Chandrikapersad Santokhi, Surinamese Minister of Justice and Police; and A. Thomas McLellan, White House Office of National Drug Abuse Policy Deputy Director, and CICAD 46 keynote speaker. Johnson, Santokhi and McLellan will deliver short introductory remarks before taking questions from the press.
The press conference will be held at 11:45 a.m. at the Hilton Miami Downtown Hotel, 1601 Biscayne Boulevard. Journalists should bring their media credentials and sign in before being directed to the press conference venue. They must set up by 11:30 a.m.
“Drug Prevention, Treatment and Re-Integration” is the theme of CICAD 46, which includes a visit to a Miami Drug Court. The United States is nominated to chair the CICAD for the first time in the Commission’s 23-year history.
The CICAD was established by the Organization of American States General Assembly in 1986 as the Western Hemisphere's policy forum on all aspects of the drug problem. Its mission is to strengthen the human and institutional capacities of its member states to reduce the production, trafficking and use of illegal drugs, and to address the health, social and criminal consequences of the drug trade.