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.
The OAS, WTO, and George Washington University Offer Advanced Course on the Trade Agenda of the Americas
June 28, 2010
The Organization of American States (OAS), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the George Washington University Law School offered an advanced course for government officials titled, “A Trade Agenda for the Americas: The Doha Development Agenda and Trade Agreements in the Hemisphere,” from June 14 to 25.
Close to 30 officials from 14 Latin American countries participated in the course, which analyzed the principal themes of the hemisphere’s trade agenda and, more specifically, emphasized the Doha Development Agenda and the trade agreements signed by several countries in the hemisphere. The themes touched upon in the two-week course included the role of trade in development strategies, access to markets, agriculture, trade in services and intellectual property rights, among others.
In the opening session, the Director of the Department for Economic Development, Trade and Tourism of the OAS, Jorge Saggiante, stressed the need to develop human resources and the capacity of institutions responsible for the design and implementation of trade policy, and spoke of the importance this organization gives to the topic of development. “The OAS, in conjunction with the WTO and with the financial support of countries like Spain and Canada, takes advantage of its technical capacity and recognized scholarship programs to organize this type of course and contribute to the institutional strengthening of its Member States,” he said.
The presentations were given by experts and analysts from the WTO, the OAS, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and other regional and international organizations, as well as university professors, lawyers, and officials from different Latin American countries with extensive practical experience in designing and managing trade policy.
Additional information on this course is available at the following link: http://tradecourse.sice.oas.org/Public/home_s.asp
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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