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.
Saint Lucia’s Ambassador Sonia Johnny, in her first address to the OASPermanent Council as its Chair, urged “vigilance” in ongoing efforts to strengthen democratic institutions in Haiti, beyond the upcoming elections.
Among agenda priorities for her three-month leadership of the second-highest OAS body, the Saint Lucian envoy stressed the need for concerted focus on advancing Haiti’s development and social agenda, as “the visible and invisible scars that remain long after the polls have closed will require a response that will demand a collective effort to provide a salve for the people of that country.”
During the Permanent Council’s first regular session for the year, she told her colleague ambassadors from the member states that the Organization must ensure it remains relevant to the hemisphere. “It must make absolutely sure that what it does is useful, sustainable and effective.” Emphatic that “many of our political problems today have their root cause in human and economic deprivation,” Johnny argued that the OAS should help bring about a “sense of social equity and development with those living in the hemisphere.”
Ambassador Johnny also touched on the organization’s financial situation, which will be addressed at a special General Assembly session convened for the end of this month. “In order to execute the programs and activities of the Organization as well as the myriad of summit and ministerial mandates, we must have the financial resources to do so,” she said.
The Permanent Council members also paid tribute to the late Nicaraguan presidential chief of staff and former Foreign Minister, Ernesto Leal, who died in December.
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