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.
“The security of our hemisphere faces, today, a significant challenge from criminal activity associated with transnational organized crime, illegal drug and firearm trafficking, and corruption,” Ambassador Shirley said, in depositing the instruments of accession. The treaty on mutual legal assistance, he added, “establishes common rules to guide the cooperation among states that is integral to the effort to combat these criminal activities which have no respect for national borders and which threaten our people and our institutions.”
Jamaica is the 15th country in the hemisphere – and, as Ambassador Shirley noted, the third in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), along with Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada – to become a party to the treaty.
The convention was adopted in Nassau, The Bahamas, in 1992 and entered into force in 1996. It provides a framework for states to cooperate in criminal investigations, prosecutions and proceedings by seeking assistance in such matters as summoning witnesses, taking testimony, serving documents, freezing assets, and conducting searches or seizures.
OAS Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi noted at the signing ceremony that the countries of the region need such instruments more than ever, as their legal and law enforcement systems face growing threats from transnational criminal activities.
“If we are, under such circumstances, to support the rule of law, which is fundamental to our civilized existence, then we need instruments like this, and we need to be able to make them function,” Einaudi said.
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