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.
Nantucket, Massachusetts- More than 30 congressional representatives from Venezuela and the United States began today a three-day meeting with a broad discussion on how to confront, at the parliamentary level, the problem of poverty in Venezuela.
“I think we are all in agreement that there are many areas of consensus on this issue of such priority for our country,” stated Congressman Pedro Diaz Blum of the Proyecto Venezuela party. “We hope to return to Caracas with some concrete ideas for implementation in the short, medium and long term,” he added.
The Boston Group, which is holding its second annual meeting, is a binational Venezuela-United States parliamentary forum, created to strengthen cooperation between both nations’ Congresses. The Organization of American States (OAS) is supporting the initiative, through its Unit for the Promotion of Democracy.
“The idea is to create a space for discussion outside of the country’s daily politics, which allows for the exchange of ideas in an environment of tolerance and mutual respect that rises above the partisan discussions,” said Venezuelan Congressman Calixto Ortega of the Movimiento V Republica party.
Rep. William Delahunt, Massachusetts Democrat, stated, “Our participation has to do with sharing our own experience, how we as Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, can disagree but at the same time advance towards a concrete, common agenda which benefits the country.”
For his part, Rep. Cass Ballenger, North Carolina Republican, said, “To my way of thinking, the best way to accomplish results is to simply sit down to work, put the cards on the table and look for common solutions to problems.”