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.
SPAIN SIGNS COOPERATION AGREEMENT WITH OAS HUMAN RIGHTS COURT
November 6, 2006
Human rights promotion in the Americas received an important boost today, in the form of a cooperation agreement the government of Spain signed with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. “This, we feel, is a historic move that expands the horizons for inter-American human rights protections,” said Sergio García Ramírez, President of the Inter-American Court, an arm of the Organization of American States (OAS).
The cooperation to be provided under the terms of the memorandum of understanding—signed between the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and the Inter-American Court, during a ceremony at OAS headquarters—not only entails financial contributions, important as they are, “but will also facilitate collaboration and constant interaction between the Spanish Administration and the Court,” said Ambassador Juan Romero de Terreros, Permanent Observer of Spain to the OAS.
According to the Spanish diplomat, the agreement will enable cooperation in training and in dissemination of information on the Court’s work. Ambassador Romero de Terreros said the collaboration will also enhance the Court’s efforts to “become a permanently active and effective institution.”
The Costa Rica-based Human Rights Court will receive an initial contribution of some $190,000 from the Spanish Cooperation Agency.
Romero de Terreros said during the ceremony in Washington that the Spanish government wanted to sign the agreement as a “genuine tribute to the work of the Court and to those who work on its behalf.” He also noted that the memorandum of understanding was aimed at elevating the role of the Court as the last resort in defending and promoting human rights throughout the Americas.
Expressing appreciation for the Spanish government’s show of solidarity, the President of the Court said the agreement “establishes another constructive link between the Organization of American States and the Spanish state.” Ramírez said, “We salute and appreciate the Spanish government’s very positive disposition towards the inter-American system’s jurisdiction. This helps to improve conditions under which that system operates.”