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.
AT OAS, ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL RENEWS CALL FOR
MORE ATTENTION TO DEVELOPMENT ISSUES
May 17, 2007
Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin suggested today that it may be time for the Organization of American States (OAS) to consider establishing a Permanent Council committee on development, thereby giving this issue a more prominent place on the OAS political agenda.
“This would bring much more attention to the whole issue of development,” Ramdin asserted, as he opened the twelfth regular meeting of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) at OAS headquarters.
Ramdin explained that a permanent committee on development would also give more relevance to how this issue interrelates with democracy and security, other central OAS priorities addressed on an ongoing basis by the Permanent Council. It is important that the strengthening of democracy, the rule of law and human rights be treated as preconditions for social and economic progress, he argued.
The Assistant Secretary General also emphasized that in approaching the issue of development, the OAS should focus much more on concrete results, “because that is what the people of the Americas are looking for.”
Addressing the member state delegations, Ramdin noted that in order to more effectively resolve many of the development issues facing the member countries, differences among them must be acknowledged, such as the underlying questions that cause small economies to be especially vulnerable.
At the meeting, the member states elected St. Vincent and the Grenadines Ambassador Ellsworth John as Chairman of CIDI and Chilean Alternate Representative Patricio Powell as Vice Chairman. The delegations also heard presentations on the respective cooperation priorities and experiences with the OAS, presented by Permanent Observer of Spain, Ambassador Juan Romero de Terreros; the Permanent Observer of France, Ambassador Georges Vaugier; the Permanent Observer of Italy, Ambassador Gerolamo Schiavoni; and Geraldine Dufort of the European Commission.
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