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.
OAS JOINS FORCES WITH THE CARIBBEAN TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE
April 4, 2008
With recent scientific studies confirming that global climate change is real and that small and low lying states are at greatest risk from its effects, the Organization of American States (OAS) is joining forces with the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center to help make the Caribbean Community more resilient to a changing climate.
The OAS and the Belize-based Climate Change Center will sign a collaborative agreement to that effect on April 9, committing to joint action.
The scientific findings, including the latest report of the (IPCC)Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , are of particular concern to Caribbean countries whose development over the past two decades has been severely disrupted by a variety of extreme weather events, especially floods, droughts and hurricanes. The prospect that the intensity, frequency and duration of such events will increase as a result of global climate change demands a prompt, strategic and collaborative response by those countries that are most vulnerable in concert with their development partners.
It is against this background, and in furtherance of the mandates and responsibilities entrusted to the various organs of the OAS, including the Committee on Hemispheric Security, that the OAS and the Climate Change Center are proposing to collaborate on this venture.
Secretary-General José Miguel Insulza will sign on behalf of the OAS General Secretariat, with Dr. Ken Leslie signing as Executive Director of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center.
In addition to the two signatories, the ceremony will feature brief remarks by Dr. Izben Williams, Permanent Representative of St. Kitts and Nevis to the OAS and Chairman of the Committee on Hemispheric Security and Ambassador Nestor Mendez, Permanent Representative of Belize to the OAS.
The signing ceremony will take place at 12.00 noon at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the OAS at 17th Street and Constitution Avenue, in Washington, D.C.