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.
Statement of the OAS Secretary General on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
October 17, 2020
Permanently eradicating poverty is central to guaranteeing more rights for more people in the Americas. On this International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, we cannot be tolerant of the existence of millions of people living in poverty and extreme poverty, a situation that is now aggravated by the effects of COVID-19.
The data is alarming. Today we know that there will be at least 30 million newly impoverished people as a result of the pandemic and 16 million more will fall into extreme poverty. This has dramatically set back the social advances that the countries of the region had achieved.
These figures, in addition to sounding an alarm, must be a call for urgent action and to redouble efforts in all areas, because behind these numbers there are people, households, children who today do not have access to their rights.
In this search for solutions to definitively eradicate the scourge of poverty, the Organization of American States (OAS) has an important role to play through concrete actions, such as promoting dialogue and technical cooperation among its member states for the exchange of information and experiences on the policies that have worked in the fight against poverty.
In addition, we have valuable economic and social rights instruments such as the Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Protocol of San Salvador) and its monitoring mechanism, through which a Group of Experts make recommendations to States aimed at improving public policies that are key to eradicating poverty.
Likewise, through the Inter-American Democratic Charter and the Social Charter of the Americas, the OAS has been a pioneer in recognizing the link and indivisibility between civil and political rights, and economic, social, cultural and environmental rights.
Now, more than ever, we must continue exchanging tools, experiences and knowledge to achieve the global and regional goal of definitively eradicating poverty and thus ensuring a future that truly guarantees more rights for more people.
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