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.
Foreign ministers and other high-level authorities from the 34 countries in the hemisphere are expected to adopt the Declaration on Security in the Americas during the Special Conference on Security, to be held in Mexico City on October 27 and 28.
The document defines a “multidimensional” approach that goes beyond the traditional concept of security to encompass new threats, which include political, economic, social, health and environmental aspects. It highlights the importance of strengthening hemispheric cooperation on every aspect of security, within a democratic framework.
“Peace is a value and a principle in itself, based on democracy, justice, respect for human rights, solidarity, security, and respect for international law,” the draft Declaration on Security in the Americas states.
The Chairman of the Permanent Council’s Committee on Hemispheric Security, Ambassador Luis Enrique Chase Plate of Paraguay, emphasized that drafting a document based on consensus has been an “arduous and intense task, but valuable in the sense of exchanging experiences, knowledge and criteria about issues of great importance for our states and for the Americas.”
“The important thing is that, even with the governments’ diverse perspectives and interests, a consensus has been reached on the principles, perspectives and measures related to hemispheric security,” he said.
Apart from being a political declaration, the document is also a “plan of action” on security issues, since it includes a number of commitments and cooperation measures to be taken, according to Mexico’s Ambassador to the OAS, Miguel Ruiz-Cabañas, who headed a working group in charge of preparing the declaration.
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