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.
Colombia Expands the Mandate of the OAS Mission to Support the Peace Process
September 27, 2016
The Mission to Support the Peace Process of the Organization of American States (MAPP/OAS) will monitor the challenges, risks and threats to the peace in the post-conflict stage in Colombia, according to the agreement signed today in Cartagena by the Foreign Minister of Colombia, María Ángela Holguin; the High Commissioner for Post-Conflict, Rafael Pardo, and the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro.
The MAPP/OAS will have an active and permanent presence in the territories to be left by the FARC-EP, and in those with presence of the ELN and organized armed groups. In these zones, the Mission will monitor security conditions and the effects on communities. It will also monitor the development of social conflicts that pose challenges for the consolidation of peace, and will continue with its work regarding the rights of social leaders, human rights defenders, farmers, those reclaiming lands, those receiving collective reparation, indigenous peoples, and afro-Colombians, among others.
The Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, said the Organization receives the assignment from the government with the greatest sense of responsibility: “The OAS will continue to work on this noble task – the building of peace, we will contribute all the lessons learned and the understanding of the Colombian territory we have built during these twelve years. We thank Colombia for its trust. The OAS is and will remain committed to you and to peace.”
The Mission, which has since 2004 supported the efforts of Colombia to achieve peace, has 15 permanent regional offices and a mobile team that covers 250 populated centers in 20 departments of the country. It will present periodic reports to the Colombian government, with recommendations combining the needs of communities and the peace policies.
The specific role given to the MAPP/OAS will complement and secure the work of other national and international entities that also work for peace in Colombia. Therefore, the Mission will coordinate its actions with these institutions.
The ceremony for the signing of the agreement was attended by the Chief of the MAPP/OAS, Roberto Menéndez; the Permanent Representative of Colombia to the OAS, Andrés González; and representatives of the international community, many of whom contribute to the financing of the OAS Mission.
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