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.
IN OAS ADDRESS, VENEZUELA’S FOREIGN MINISTER CALLS FOR COMPREHENSIVE, MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH TO DEMOCRACY
February 23, 2005
Venezuela’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Dr. Ali Rodríguez Araque, today called on the Organization of American States (OAS) to move forward on formulating a comprehensive, multi-dimensional approach to democracy. He said such an approach would ensure basic paradigms for societies to be more just and more democratic.
In his address to a special session of the Permanent Council, presided over by Chairman, Ambassador Manuel María Cáceres of Paraguay, Minister Rodríguez argued that “the inter-American system is compelled, even ethically, to tackle poverty decisively, so that equity and social inclusion prevail in all of the nations of the Americas.”
The Venezuelan Minister further explained his government’s view of “the question of social justice as a basic element of democracy.” He underscored as well the importance of the Venezuelan proposal for a Social Charter of the Americas with specific mechanisms to combat the existing “excruciating and inexcusable” level of poverty. “Venezuela, like most of our countries, has but one enemy to conquer—poverty,” he asserted, describing the Inter-American Democratic Charter and the proposed Social Charter of the Americas as complementary and mutually-reinforcing.
The Foreign Minister went on to state: “Venezuela is showing the world that the constraints of an elitist view of democracy can be overcome, and that inclusive democracy can and must be built with equity, with a human face, and to the benefit of all members of society.”
Touching on sovereignty and self-determination, he said true democracy cannot be divorced from this question. “Without self-determination there simply is no democracy. Self-determination, sovereignty and democracy are inseparable and mutually-conditioning. Furthermore, they are the cornerstone of a proper and peaceful relationship between and among states.”
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