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.
Through resolutions AG/RES. 2455 (XXXIX-O/09) and AG/RES. 2562 (XL-O/10), the General Assembly urged the Permanent Council to convene a "special meeting on human rights and older persons, with the participation of national representatives and experts from the academic sector and civil society, as well as from international organizations, for the purpose of sharing information and best practices and examining the feasibility of preparing an inter-American convention on the rights of older persons." That meeting was held on October 28, 2010, with the participation of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), civil society representatives and specialists of the OAS General Secretariat.
On June 2011, through resolution AG/RES. 2654 (XLI-O/11), the General Assembly asked the Permanent Council to establish a Working Group first to prepare a report analyzing "the situation of older persons in the Hemisphere and the effectiveness of binding universal and regional human rights instruments with regard to protection of the rights of older persons"; and then to prepare "a draft inter-American convention for the protection and promotion of the rights of older persons."
On 2012, the General Assembly, in resolution AG/RES. 2726 (XLII-O/12), asked the Permanent Council to extend the mandate of the Working Group to include the process of formally negotiating the draft Convention.
On June 2013, through resolution AG/RES. 2792 (XLIII-O/13), the General Assembly requested that the Permanent Council extend the mandate of the Working Group to enable it to conclude formal negotiation of the Draft Inter-American Convention on the Human Rights of Older Persons.
On June 2014, through resolution AG/RES. 2825 (XLIV-O/14), the General Assembly requested the Permanent Council to extend the mandate of the Working Group so that it could conclude the process of formal negotiation of the Draft Inter-American Convention on the Human Rights of Older Persons and seek to present it to the General Assembly for adoption at its forty-fifth regular session.
On June 15, 2015 the member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) approved the Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons during the General Assembly in Washington DC. The Convention was immediately signed by the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica and Uruguay at OAS headquarters.
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