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.
REGION RENEWS COMMITMENT TO COMBAT ALL FORMS OF TERRORISM
February 18, 2005
PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO – The Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE) of the Organization of American States (OAS) concluded its fifth regular session today with a renewed commitment to prevent, combat and eliminate terrorism “in all its forms and manifestations, whatever its origin or motivation.”
Reaffirming that terrorism “has no justification whatsoever,” the member states agreed to work within their own countries, sub-regions and the hemisphere as a whole to confront this scourge. The threat of terrorism is exacerbated by connections with money laundering, illicit trafficking in drugs and arms, and other forms of transnational organized crime, they said in the “Declaration of Port-of-Spain on Strengthening Cooperation on Strategies to Sustain and Advance the Hemispheric Fight against Terrorism,” adopted at the end of Thursday’s deliberations.
The member states said urgent measures are needed to strengthen cooperation and information exchange “with the aim of locating, capturing, prosecuting, and punishing the sponsors, organizers, and perpetrators of terrorist acts, as well as of identifying and freezing assets and resources used to facilitate, promote, or commit such acts.”
In the Declaration of Port-of-Spain, they also affirmed the need to support cooperation on cross-border management, improve the security and integrity of official documents, develop ways to rapidly disseminate warnings about cybersecurity threats, and intensify efforts to disrupt the capacity of terrorist networks to threaten safe travel and recreation in the member states, among other measures.
In closing the three-day session today, CICTE Chair Martin Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of National Security, acknowledged that implementing the anti-terrorism body’s ambitious and expanding work plan will require continued political, human and financial support. He thanked the United States for its additional contribution of $1.6 million to CICTE, announced by the head of the U.S. delegation, Homeland Security Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson, during Thursday’s session.
Joseph, who will chair CICTE during the coming year, called the OAS body “a unique inter-American forum for dialogue, policymaking and action in counter-terrorism matters – a forum which must constantly be a forerunner in the fight against terrorism.”
The CICTE work plan adopted here recommends a range of measures designed to enhance coordination and information-sharing related to border and customs controls, the prevention of money laundering, and the strengthening of cybersecurity and aviation and maritime security.