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.
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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 Signs Agreement with Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO)
January 19, 2010
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza; the Permanent Representative of Barbados to the OAS, Ambassador John Beale; and the Secretary General of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), Hugh Riley, today signed an agreement on tourism for the Caribbean region. The ceremony was held in the office of the Secretary General at OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The Memorandum of Understanding seeks to continue the working relationship between the General Secretariat and the CTO under the auspices of the Government of Barbados. During the event, the Secretary General asserted that this agreement “gives us the opportunity of raising and strengthening collaboration with the CTO, supporting Caribbean efforts on diversity, innovation and updating of the tourism product in the region to make it even more competitive.”
“The OAS, through its tourism office, continues its commitment to the promotion of regional cooperation, in sharing the best practices in the industry of tourism, and the opening of opportunities for collaboration between the private and public sectors,” Insulza said.
For his part, the Secretary General of the CTO, Hugh Riley, highlighted the importance of the agreement for the CTO. “It is an honor and a privilege for us today to be a part of this historic agreement,” he said. “We believe it signals the continuation, the strengthening, the broadening of collaboration between the CTO and the Organization of American States.”
The OAS and the CTO have been working together since 1976. With the signing of this agreement the contribution made by the OAS to the CTO was raised from 50,000 to 100,000 US dollars, which “underlines the importance that the OAS attributes to the development of tourism in the Caribbean,” the Secretary General said.
Present at the ceremony were the President of the Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the OAS, José Enrique Castillo, and the ambassadors of Jamaica y Grenada.