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.
GOVERNMENT SPOKESPERSONS OF THE AMERICAS TO MEET IN URUGUAY
June 11, 2007
Government spokespersons from around the Americas will meet in Montevideo, Uruguay, on June 14 and 15 to participate in a seminar sponsored by the Organization of American States (OAS), the Open Society Institute and the governments of China and Uruguay.
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza will open the seminar next Thursday in the Uruguayan capital and will share his views on the major challenges facing the region on democratic governance, the protection of human rights, trade and integral development, among other issues.
This Second Meeting of Spokespersons of the Member States of the OAS—the first was held in Santiago, Chile—will continue discussions begun in 2005 with presidential spokespersons of the region on the challenges they face in keeping citizens informed, as well as on the most important issues on the Inter-American agenda.
During the two-day conference, organized by the OAS Department of External Relations, discussions will be held on “The Role of the Spokesperson in the Americas,” “Spokespersons and the Media,” and on “Freedom of Expression.” Also participating as special guests at the meeting are: Andrés Oppenheimer, Miami Herald columnist; Matt Cooper, editor from the Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine; Ignacio Alvarez, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, and Claudio Grossman, Dean of American University’s Washington School of Law.
WHAT: Meeting of Government Spokesperson of the OAS Member States
WHEN: June 14-15, 2007
WHERE: Sheraton Hotel
Punta Carretas
Montevideo, Uruguay