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.
Democracy, economic development and security are among indispensable conditions needed for governments in the hemisphere to build better societies for their citizens, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, said today.
Speaking to students in the 2006 class of the Inter-American Defense College in Washington, Insulza gave an overview of the elections that will take place in several countries of the region this year, underscoring the challenges that the new presidents will face. “Politics is about producing beneficial results, resolving people’s problems, and when it doesn’t do this, our governments become more unstable,” he said. The Secretary General recalled that the task of the Organization he represents is to support governments with those challenges, within the framework of the Inter-American Charter.
Insulza emphasized that political leaders have the responsibility to govern democratically once they are elected. “The Inter-American Charter has to do with democracy of origin as much as democracy of practice,” the Secretary General affirmed.
He also explained that the OAS has taken important steps in the area of multidimensional security in the hemisphere, and highlighted as examples its programs in the fight against drugs and terrorism, as well as its field work to eliminate antipersonnel landmines.
Insulza said he was optimistic regarding the challenges that must be faced and reiterated that “by strengthening our democracies, improving the quality of our governments and embracing a greater social concern, combined with the major development issues and a broader, more comprehensive security perspective such as the one we are developing now, we will be able to reach those objectives.”
The Inter-American Defense College is an international educational institute operating under the aegis and funding of the OAS and the Inter-American Defense Board.
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