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.
OAS PROMOTES EFFORTS TO COMBAT ORGANIZED TRANSNATIONAL CRIME
July 26, 2007
The first meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) Technical Group on Transnational Organized Crime was held July 26-27, at the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Mexico City.
In opening the meeting, the Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights of Mexico, Ambassador Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo called on all nations of the Americas to “join forces to confront criminal groups that do not respect borders, corrupt our institutions, affect our democracies and murder our peoples.” In this regard, he noted that President Felipe Calderon’s struggle against organized crime is unprecedented, and recognized that hemispheric cooperation for this ongoing effort is fundamental.
The Technical Group was created as a hemispheric forum to design multilateral strategies to combat transnational organized crime. During the two-day meeting, government officials discussed and exchanged experiences related to their national strategies against transnational organized crime, special investigation techniques, international cooperation, and the sharing of information to fight this scourge.
Also participating in the meeting are national, regional and international experts, including representatives from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the office of Mexico’s Attorney General and Public Security Secretariat, INTERPOL, among others.
The Technical Group was created within the framework of the Hemispheric Plan of Action against Transnational Organized Crime, adopted by the OAS Permanent Council in October, 2006 which is aimed at ensuring the Member States implement the United Nations Convention against transnational organized crime. The Group’s objective is to consider issues related with the implementation of the Plan of Action, as well as concrete political measures and tools that can be used by the member States to combat transnational organized crime more effectively.
“This pioneer meeting will lay the groundwork for a permanent dialogue and coordination among the OAS member States, which is fundamental to combat transnational organized crime,” said Christopher Hernández-Roy, Director of the OAS Department for the Prevention of Threats against Public Security. The Department, established by the Secretary General in 2005, is the technical area responsible for all issues related to transnational organized crime, such as the trafficking in persons and arms trafficking.
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