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.
UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTES TO OAS FUND FOR SMALL-ARMS DESTRUCTION
August 24, 2006
The Organization of American States (OAS) has received a contribution of $50,000 from the government of the United States for a newly created special fund to manage, collect and destroy stockpiles of small weapons.
The contribution – the first to this particular fund – will be used to help finance the Central America Munitions Stockpile Destruction Pilot Project, which is being carried out by the OAS Department of Public Security as a complementary project to humanitarian demining efforts in the region.
Christopher Hernández-Roy, who heads the Department of Public Security, explained that vast quantities of arms and ammunition are held by armed forces, police and other state entities throughout the Americas, either as government stocks or because they have been confiscated from criminals, and that some official storage facilities are inadequately managed or secured.
“There are real problems with surplus or obsolete arms and ammunition, which constitute a significant portion of stocks in several countries,” Hernández-Roy said. In some cases, he added, stockpiles are considered “surplus” as a result of peace agreements and the subsequent restructuring or downsizing of security forces.
In addition to the security risk posed by the fact that poorly secured stores can be tempting targets for criminals, the presence of stores of conventional ammunition and explosives can be a hazard to surrounding communities, Hernández-Roy said. Major explosions have occurred in some countries due to factors such as fire, human error, lightning strikes, or instability of propellants or explosives.
The OAS project underway in Central America supports the elimination of surplus and expired munitions, as well as the restoration of areas that have been contaminated as a result of storage facility accidents.
In 2005, the OAS General Assembly recognized the problems associated with stockpiles of small arms and called for the establishment of a specific fund to collect and channel resources to member states for the collection and destruction of such weapons and for related training programs.
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