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.
Costa Rica Concludes Destruction of Firearms and Ammunition with OAS Support
October 25, 2014
The Government of Costa Rica, through the Ministry of Public Security and with the support and certification of the Organization of American States (OAS), carried out this week a phase of destruction of firearms and ammunition in which 3,190 firearms of various types and sizes, and 59,970 rounds of small-caliber ammunition, mostly seized in the streets, were eliminated.
All operations were executed according to international standards by members of the Public Security Forces of Costa Rica, and supervised by the Program of Assistance for the Control of Arms and Munitions of the Department of Public Security of the OAS. The Embassy of the United States of America in San Jose provided tools and equipment to carry out the destruction.
The technical assistance and certification by the Department of Public Security of the OAS is done within the framework of the Agreement for the Cooperation and Technical Assistance between the Republic of Costa Rica through the Ministry of Public Security and the General Secretariat of the OAS regarding the Program of Assistance for the Control of Arms and Munitions in Costa Rica, signed in July of 2011. Since then Costa Rica has destroyed more than two million rounds of ammunition and more than thirty-five thousand of long and short firearms with OAS certification.
The Department of Public Security of the Organization of American States, through the Program of Assistance for the Control of Arms and Munitions, has supported Central American states in the destruction of more than 1,600 tons of ammunition and thousands of arms in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua since 2007.
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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