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.
NICARAGUAN PRESIDENT UNDERSCORES COMMITMENT TO FIGHTING CORRUPTION
February 25, 2003
Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolaños today reassured the Organization of American States (OAS) that his government remains “firm and resolute” in its determination to fight corruption. He also urged international financial institutions to give more attention and economic aid to Central America.
“My commitment to fighting corruption has been, is and will remain unyielding,” declared the President at a protocolary meeting of the OAS Permanent Council, reaffirming as well Nicaragua’s commitment to treaties to fight terrorism and arms and drug trafficking.
Turning to the recent OAS report on the diversion of Nicaraguan arms to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, President Bolaños said he had given specific instructions “for a thorough investigation at the national and international level, and trust we can count on the cooperation of countries that are friends of this Organization.”
He lauded the OAS for “the exceptional role it has played in Central America, particularly in Nicaragua,” and said recent Permanent Council resolutions were not only “an eloquent demonstration of efficiency” but also “a clear demonstration of the usefulness of the Inter-American Democratic Charter.”
OAS Secretary General César Gaviria praised Nicaraguans for their “great commitment to democracy,” telling the President: “Throughout these past thirteen months holding the reins of Nicaragua’s destiny, you have demonstrated your commitment to transparency, honesty, austerity, and to a frontal and sustained campaign against all forms of corruption.”
Touching on the current administration’s austerity policies and prudent macroeconomic management that facilitated an agreement with the International Monetary Fund, the Secretary General said constitutional initiatives by the Bolaños administration to eradicate corruption and bolster the rule of law “conform strictly to the principles of the Inter-American Democratic Charter and remain very relevant.”
The Permanent Council’s Chairman, Ambassador Arturo Duarte of Guatemala, welcomed President Bolaños, underscoring his “tireless efforts to consolidate democratic values, justice and well-being for all Nicaraguans.”