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.
REMARKS BY THE SECRETARY GENERAL
OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES
JOSE MIGUEL INSULZA
COMMEMORATING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
March 8, 2009
Today, March 8, the world is celebrating International Women’s Day. For many, it will doubtless be an occasion to reflect on the eradication of violence against women, the feminization of poverty and of diseases such as HIV/AIDS, the trafficking and smuggling of persons, especially women and children, and inequality in pay women and men receive for the same job.
We, as an Organization, are not oblivious to these still pending tasks that shape the social life of our times. On the contrary, for the OAS, all of them are crucial topics on our agenda, huge ongoing challenges, despite all the battles waged and all the progress achieved, and they are goals we will continue to fight for.
However, in our quest for solutions, we need to involve the whole of society. That is essential if women are to achieve the full exercise of their rights, including political participation and access to decision-making.
Just over one month from now, in Trinidad and Tobago, we will be holding the Fifth Summit of the Americas. The human prosperity we long for, energy security, and environmental sustainability – the leitmotifs of that hemispheric meeting – cannot surely be attained without true democracy permanently rooted in the principles of equality, equity, social justice, and full respect for women’s rights.
For that and many other reasons, on this important day, I would like to pay tribute to all those who advocate women’s rights. But I would especially like to direct these remarks to the women who strive anonymously for this cause on farms and in trade unions, companies, and homes and who contribute with their participation in their communities to the wellbeing of their fellow citizens.
Only if we are united will we be able to progress toward the achievement of our ideals. I wish all of you a very happy Women’s Day!
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