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.
URUGUAY JOINS INTER-AMERICAN CONVENTION ON SERVING CRIMINAL SENTENCES ABROAD
October 23, 2009
The Oriental Republic of Uruguay on Friday became the fifteenth country to ratify the Inter-American Convention on Serving Criminal Sentences Abroad. The Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the Organization of American States (OAS), María del Luján Flores, handed the necessary documents to the OAS Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza.
The Convention was adopted in Managua, Nicaragua, on June 9th, 1993, during the 23rd Regular Session of the OAS General Assembly, and came into effect on April 12th, 1996. The goal of the Convention is to allow nationals sentenced abroad to serve their sentences in their own countries.
“Instruments such as this Convention allow us to broaden the scope of international penal cooperation. If agreements to serve sentences abroad are common in the civil and commercial worlds, this is the first in penal matters to be ratified in Uruguay,” said Ambassador Flores.
Secretary General Insulza expressed his “satisfaction” with Uruguay’s ratification of the Convention, and called on more countries to follow suit. “This treaty is an important step for the conditions under which sentences are served in our countries,” the Secretary General said.
“The Convention allows us to solve a series of problems regarding respect for Human Rights still weighing over our penal systems. I thank you, Ambassador, for bringing good news to us,” he added.
Since the adoption of the Convention in 1993, fifteen countries have ratified it: Belize, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, United States, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Venezuela and now Uruguay.
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