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.
Andrés Felipe Sánchez Peña is a young professional, an Economist with an Academic Option in Business Administration from the Universidad de Los Andes located in Bogotá, Colombia. Also, He has taken graduate studies on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) with United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-WEH);
and He holds a Master’s degree on Environmental Sciences and Policy from the Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Sánchez started his professional career in the Department of Sustainable Development (DSD) of the Organization of American States (OAS) in September 2009, joining a working team of the Sustainable Cities, Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Management Section, to give support to the implementation of the Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network Project (IABIN).
Since January 2010, Mr. Sanchez joined the Integrated Water Resources
Management Section (IWRM) of the DSD/OAS to work in the Monitoring and
Evaluation component of the IWRM’s Global Environmental Facility (GEF) projects
portfolio. Among others activities he works are: project coordination, the
formulation of new project proposal on integrated superficial and groundwater
management in the Americas; and to support efforts under the initiatives that
promotes the work with youth for sustainable development in the region.
Within his interests and experience are environmental and economic management,
energy production, climate change, social development, policy analysis and the development of multidisciplinary frameworks towards environmental management.