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.
Statement on the Initiative of Chile and Colombia for the Protection of Accompanied and Unaccompanied Migrant and Refugee Children and Adolescents in the Americas
February 4, 2023
The General Secretariat supports the initiative of the Missions of Chile and Colombia to the OAS, who, in collaboration with the Inter-American Dialogue, propose to jointly and collaboratively initiate, within the OAS, a hemispheric dialogue that allows for coordination and cooperation for the protection of migrant and refugee children in the Americas. This is for the purpose of safeguarding the rights of migrant and refugee children and adolescents, whether they are accompanied or unaccompanied.
Latin America and the Caribbean are experiencing one of the largest migratory processes in history. Violence, poverty, inequality, hunger, insecurity, political instability and persecution, as well as the effects of climate change, force the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people each year, which poses challenges for policies and institutions of our countries. Many times it is a chaotic process, which exposes migrants and refugees to multiple vulnerabilities in terms of human rights, especially migrant and refugee families seeking reception and integration in our countries and local communities.
In this general framework, it is particularly girls, boys and adolescents (NNA) who suffer disproportionately when they find themselves in a double situation of vulnerability: being a migrant and being a minor. In addition to expressions of xenophobia and racism that are not uncommon, migrant children and adolescents are exposed to different forms of abuse and violence, especially the youngest and the unaccompanied.
The seriousness of this reality demands urgent attention from States, civil society and international organizations. It is essential that these entities assume a permanent commitment to address this problem of strategic and humanitarian importance in our hemisphere. It is necessary to develop actions in a peremptory and coordinated manner.
This initiative will propose a meeting to be held during the OAS General Assembly, next June 23, convening government representatives, international organizations and civil society in a useful and productive dialogue, working together. The General Secretariat reiterates its approval and commitment to this proposal and offers its broadest and most dedicated collaboration. We cannot leave our refugee and migrant children and adolescents behind.
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