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.
Speaking in Buenos Aires, Argentina, today, Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General José Miguel Insulza expressed support for efforts to promote the Southern Common Market—known by its Spanish acronym MERCOSUR—as a tool to boost economic and social development in the member countries of that bloc.
“We all view with great interest the prospects for strengthening MERCOSUR by including new nations, an approach that has the support of the OAS. We spare no effort to promote integration in the region,” the head of the hemispheric body said.
Asked about Venezuela joining MERCOSUR, Insulza observed that “this requires not only the approval of the various national Congresses, but also involves successful conclusion of negotiations whereby Venezuela would have to meet certain requirements to become a full-fledged member of the bloc. Several steps have to be taken on economic negotiation, but I understand that these are underway and in discussion.”
The OAS Secretary General’s is on an official visit to Argentina—July 16-18—at the invitation of Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Taiana. Insulza’s schedule includes meeting with senior government officials, among them Foreign Minister Taiana, Interior Minister Aníbel Fernández. The Secretary general will meet with President Néstor Kirchner Wednesday afternoon.
Meeting about women issues
On Wednesday, the OAS Secretary General and the Argentinean Foreign Minister will open the Third Multilateral Evaluation Meeting of the Committee of Experts of the Follow-Up Mechanism to the Convention of Belém do Pará, the Inter-American Convention to Prevent, Punish and Eradicate Violence against Women.
“I am most grateful to the government of Argentina for hosting this meeting of experts,” the Secretary General said. “I hope the meeting will consider the crucial report that our Human Rights Commission issued a few weeks ago. It was unflattering with respect to the countries’ efforts to implement measures to eradicate violence of women.”
The MESECVI Statute was adopted in October, 2004. Under the mechanism’s multilateral evaluation process, the States Parties evaluate Convention-related policies implemented to provide follow-up. They also receive specific recommendations as to how to attain objectives.
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