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.
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA ENVOY, ASSUMING OAS PERMANENT
COUNCIL CHAIR, PROMISES MORE FOCUS ON HEMISPHERE’S YOUTH
July 9, 2007
Placing the youth “front and center” on the agenda of the Organization of American States (OAS) will be top priority over the next three months, Antigua and Barbuda’s Permanent Representative Deborah-Mae Lovell declared in Washington today, as she assumed the chairmanship of the OAS Permanent Council.
Ambassador Lovell accepted the gavel from the outgoing Permanent Council Chairman, Venezuela’s Permanent Representative Ambassador Jorge Valero, arguing that, “We must include the youth on the agenda of the hemisphere.” Lovell explained that such a focus is necessary in order to better serve the youth of the Americas—a constituency that makes up some 65 per cent of the population of the Americas and “100 per cent of our future.”
While at the helm of the Permanent Council, the Antigua and Barbuda envoy will also put emphasis on continuing a conversation the OAS opened earlier this year concerning the trans-Atlantic slave trade, along with the other priorities of the hemispheric forum of the member state ambassadors. Lovell also commended Ambassador Valero for his “stellar work” at the helm of the organization’s second highest decision-making body over the past three months.
For his part, Ambassador Valero, who is also Venezuela’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America, reflected on his chairmanship, thanked the OAS Secretariat and member states for their support during his three months at the helm, and expressed ongoing support for the work of the Permanent Council.
Along with several member state ambassadors and other officials, OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza and Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin were on hand for the brief ceremony for the change of ambassadors to occupy the three-month rotating Permanent Council chairmanship.