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.
EXPERTS AT OAS BRIEF INTER-AMERICAN DEFENSE COLLEGE STUDENTS ON DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENTS
February 22, 2008
Fifty-four postgraduate students from the http://www.jid.org/ participated in a program at the Organization of American States headquarters, where they heard perspectives on the hemispheric security and defense situation and learned about the pertinent hemispheric instruments.
Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin welcomed the students to the daylong event at OAS headquarters on Thursday. During their session, the participants from 16 countries along with a representative from Spain—among them senior military and government officials—heard from various experts who gave a hemispheric overview on democracy, human rights and integral development I n the hemisphere.
Permanent Representative of Brazil to the OAS Ambassador Osmar Chohfi outlined the history and evolution of the inter-American system and the role of the OAS, while Director of the Department of External Relations Irene Klinger spoke about the activities of the hemispheric organization in the region. Inter-American Defense College Director Rear Admiral Moira Flanders, meanwhile, thanked the OAS for its support to the College.
Located at Fort Lesley J. McNair, the Inter-American Defense College was formally opened in October 1962 as part of the Inter-American Defense Board. An arm of the OAS since March 2006, the College provides a professionally oriented, multidisciplinary, graduate-level course of study in defense, in an eleven-month academic program that focuses on government systems, the current international environment, the structure and functioning of the inter-American system, as well as a wide range of security-related issues facing the Hemisphere and the world at large.
Under this eleven-month academic program, senior military and government officials gain a comprehensive understanding of governmental systems, the current international environment, structure and function of the Inter-American system.