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 SECRETARY GENERAL TO ATTEND SUMMIT OF TUXTLA GROUP IN COSTA RICA
July 27, 2009
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, will travel tomorrow to Costa Rica to attend the XI Summit of the Tuxtla Mechanism of Dialogue and Concertation, to be held until Wednesday, July 29 in the city of Guanacaste.
President Óscar Arias of Costa Rica will host a meeting that will be attended by President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa of México, President Álvaro Colom Caballeros of Guatemala, President Mauricio Funes Cartagena of El Salvador, President Ricardo Martinelli Berrocal of Panama and President Álvaro Uribe Vélez of Colombia, according to the Costa Rican Ministry of Foreign Relations.
Also confirmed are Rafael Alburqueque, Vicepresident of the Dominican Republic, and Gaspar Vega, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment of Belize.
Other invitees to the Summit include Luis Alberto Moreno, President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Alicia Bárcena, United Nations Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Rebeca Grynspan, Assistant Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Director of UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, and Nick Rischbieth, Executive President of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI).
The Tuxtla Mechanism of Dialogue and Concertation was adopted at the Summit of Presidents of Central America and Mexico held in January, 1991 in Tuxtla, Mexico. It represents a forum for consensus building, political dialogue and cooperation. The mechanism includes Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico and Dominican Republic (Observer). Colombia takes part in the Mesoamérica Project.
The OAS Secretary General is scheduled to return to Washington, DC on Thursday, July 30.