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.
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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.
SECRETARY GENERAL RENEWS OAS SUPPORT FOR CARICOM
HURRICANE RECOVERY EFFORTS
September 20, 2004
Renewing the Organization of American States’ (OAS) offer to help mobilize donors and technical support for hurricane-ravaged countries of the Caribbean, Secretary General Miguel Ángel Rodríguez said he was “deeply concerned and very sorry” about the devastation that hurricanes Ivan and Frances have caused on the nations of CARICOM.”
The Secretary General, who assumed office last week, sent the CARICOM leaders a letter as they met in emergency session in Trinidad and Tobago capital to discuss immediate response strategies after the hurricanes battered Grenada as well as The Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. In the letter, Rodríguez said he had already reiterated personally to CARICOM Secretary-General Edwin Carrington as well as to the CARICOM Ambassadors to the OAS the Organization’s support.
The emergency CARICOM leaders’ session, among other preliminary conclusions, decided to establish “a pool of budgetary resources” to help Grenada, the hardest hit, to meet its financial obligations for the next three months. Hurricane Ivan killed 37 in Grenada, where 90 per cent of the buildings and homes were destroyed. The leaders also decided to re-apportion Grenada’s contributions to regional organizations to other member states, where Grenadian students would also be relocated.
In his letter, Rodríguez also suggested the start of “negotiation towards a Free Trade Agreement between CARICOM and the United States.” He argued that such an agreement would “ensure the economic growth and development” of the member countries.