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.
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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.
OAS Announces Winners of Youth Essay Contest on Human Rights
December 14, 2023
On December 5, 2023, the Organization of American States (OAS) announced the winners of the Youth Essay Contest during the special meeting to commemorate Human Rights Day under the theme “Upholding Human Rights for Future Generations: 75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man.” The winners from Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Trinidad & Tobago read their essays virtually and were broadcast from the Hall of the Americas at the OAS headquarters.
The OAS Secretariat organized the contest in coordination with the Permanent Missions of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama, Peru, United States, and Uruguay to engage youth in describing the everyday impact of international instruments on advancing & promoting human rights. The essays covered: freedom of expression and assembly, rights of persons with disabilities, rights of women and girls, rights of LGBTQI+, indigenous peoples, sexual and reproductive health, afro-descendants, rights of migrants, and rights of older persons.
A total of 75 entries were received from 15 countries. An international panel—composed of representatives from the OAS Secretariat of Access to Rights and Equity and OAS Permanent Missions of Canada and the United States—judged the entries for relevance to the specific topics and novel approaches to problem-solving.
This Essay Contest was part of extensive efforts by the OAS to engage youth in support of Human Rights Day, and to encourage their participation in the formulation of ideas and recommendations regarding people in situations of vulnerability in the Americas.
Other key regional actors that promote the human rights of young people, as highlighted in materials displayed at the OAS Main Building on December 5, include: the Young Americas Business Trust (YABT), the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF), the Inter-American Institute of the Child (IIN), and the U.S. State Department, through the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI).