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.
After 17 years the OAS Takes First Step toward Approval of American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
May 24, 2016
The Organization of American States (OAS) took a first step toward the approval of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the General Assembly of the institution, which will take place in the Dominican Republic from June 13 to 15.
The Working Group charged with producing the draft American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples approved the initiative last week, during a meeting at OAS headquarters in Washington DC. The meeting included the participation of representatives of the member states and the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
The document recognizes collective organization, the pluri-cultural and multi-lingual character of the societies, and rules on the self-determination of people who consider themselves indigenous. It also grants special protection to the peoples in voluntary isolation or initial contact, an element that separates it from other initiatives on the issue.
The draft is the first instrument in the history of the OAS that promotes and protects the rights of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
For its approval, it must be presented by the Chair of the Working Group, and Permanent Representative of Paraguay to the OAS, Elisa Ruiz Díaz, to the Committee on Legal and Political Affars for analysis, after which it must be presented to the Permanent Council, which in turn must remit it to the General Assembly for final approval. The General Assembly is the most important body of the OAS.
The draft American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has been debated for 17 years at the OAS. The text of reference was adopted by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in 1997, and two years later in 1999 the Working Group began its work.
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