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.
Labor ministers from the 34 member countries of the Organization of American States (OAS) will meet next week in Mexico City to examine a range of issues related to labor policies, employment and globalization. The 14th Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor will take place September 26-27.
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza and the Director General of the International Labour Organization, Juan Somavia, are among those who will speak at the opening session. Mexico’s Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare, Francisco Javier Salazar, will chair the meeting, which will take place at the Convention Center at the Hotel Sheraton Centro Histórico.
The Director of the OAS Office of Education, Science and Technology, Alice Abreu, will present a report on steps that have been taken to follow up on the commitments the countries made in the Plan of Action adopted at the last ministerial meeting. This OAS office has served as the technical secretariat of the Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor since 2004.
“People and their work at the heart of globalization” is the central theme of the meeting, which will include such topics as social dialogue as a tool to confront the social and labor effects of globalization; and the social and labor effects of public policies on employment and the fight against poverty.
The labor ministers expect to adopt a Declaration and Plan of Action of Mexico, which will be presented for the consideration of the hemisphere’s leaders at the Fourth Summit of the Americas. The Summit will take place November 4-5 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, and will focus on the theme “Creating Jobs to Fight Poverty and Strengthen Democratic Governance.”
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