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.
New Permanent Representative of Saint Kitts and Nevis to the OAS Presents Credentials
February 16, 2011
The new Permanent Representative of Saint Kitts and Nevis to the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Jacinth Lorna Henry-Martin, today presented her credentials to the Secretary General of the hemispheric organization, José Miguel Insulza, during a ceremony in Washington, DC that was also attended by representatives from the missions of Barbados, Belize, Canada, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Mexico, Peru, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, the United States and Uruguay.
Secretary General Insulza noted the warm welcome offered to the new representative of the Caribbean country, asserting to Ambassador Henry-Martin that “the unusual presence of so many ambassadors and representatives certainly is a demonstration of the appreciation we have for your country.” Furthermore, he said the OAS and Saint Kitts and Nevis have for the past few years had a “very important relationship” and that the new ambassador’s “vast experience in international organizations and international relations will be of great benefit to this institution.”
The head of the OAS also said he felt “very happy to have full representation in the Caribbean again.” “I’m sure that these years in which we have so many challenges in the region, the support of all your countries and the support of your country will be essential to face these challenges with success.”
For her part, Ambassador Henry-Martin thanked those present for their “warm welcome” and said it was a great honor for her to represent her country before the hemispheric organization. She asserted that her government wishes “to work for the strengthening of bilateral and multilateral ties, and also through our participation in the dialogue to ensure the OAS remains true to the principles espoused in its founding chapters.”
Finally, the new representative of Saint Kitts and Nevis said she pledged “to work with you to ensure that the hemispheric objectives are realized,” and that she would “do so proudly on behalf of my country, the region, and this hemisphere.”
Ambassador Henry-Martin also represents her country as Ambassador to the White House, and she has a long and distinguished career in public service in her country. She has been Director of Culture and Parliamentary Secretary for Culture at the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Environment; Federal Minister of Government, an elected position with portfolio responsibilities in Information, Culture, Youth and Sport; Deputy High Commissioner in the United Kingdom; and, most recently, Director of US Operations for the St. Kitts Tourism Authority, a position she left in December 2010.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.