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.
OAS Working Group Issues Recommendations on Cybercrime
January 26, 2010
An Organization of American States (OAS) Working Group of international experts has issued a series of recommendations on how countries in the Americas may improve cooperation to strengthen their fight against cybercrime after meeting recently at the OAS. The recommendations, which seek to strengthen cooperation between countries of the Americas to prevent, investigate, prosecute and punish cybercrime, are to be evaluated during an upcoming high-level OAS meeting of governments in Brazil.
The Working Group met on January 21 and 22 at OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C. Its recommendations, which can be found here, seek to:
1. Establish cybercrime-specialized law enforcement units in countries of the Americas that do not yet have them;
2. Take further legislative steps to define cybercrime and how to prosecute it;
3. To consolidate cybercrime-fighting networks in the Americas to facilitate cooperation between governments;
4. To provide law enforcement training against cybercrime; and
5. To promote cooperation on fighting cybercrime with other international bodies, such as the Council of Europe.
The Working Group’s recommendations will be considered during the Eight Meeting of Ministers of Justice or other Ministers or Attorneys General of the Americas (REMJA-VIII), to be held from February 24 to 26, 2010, in Brasilia, Brazil.
During the last several years, this Working Group’s recommendations on cybercrime have resulted in the implementation of concrete measures involving cybercrime-fighting training, the exchange of cybercrime-related information between national agencies and improved law enforcement cooperation between governments and other international bodies.
To view comments made by OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza at last week’s OAS meeting on cybercrime, please click here.
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