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.
Declaration of the OAS General Secretariat on International Migrants Day
December 18, 2020
Today as we commemorate International Migrants Day, we highlight the invaluable contributions and sacrifices that migrants and their families have made in being on the front lines of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and recognize their work to keep different essential services running such as health, food, transportation, as well as the care of our children, the elderly and other people.
Millions of migrants make these contributions to our societies while still facing various challenges for their full inclusion and the respect and guarantee of their human rights. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has affected us all, the evidence shows us that those who have been most affected are vulnerable groups, including migrants, especially those in an irregular migratory situation.
According to the most recent figures from the United Nations, at the end of 2019, there were 70.3 million international migrants in the Americas, including 58.6 million in North America and 11.7 million in Latin America and the Caribbean. At the OAS, we will continue working with member and observer states, international organizations, civil society organizations, and migrants to strengthen the efforts undertaken to achieve their full inclusion in response and recovery policies in the face of the pandemic of COVID-19. Guaranteeing our motto of "more rights for more people" implies leaving no one behind and that includes all migrants, regardless of their immigration status.
Finally, on this day that also marks 30 years since the adoption of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, we must reiterate our commitment to guarantee the human rights of migrants and to continue working to generate regular channels that allow their regularization. Therefore, we reaffirm the commitment of the OAS General Secretariat to provide technical cooperation and cooperation to member states for the development of public policies for safe, orderly and regular migration in accordance with international treaties on the matter, the Global Compact for a Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals.