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.
Jamaica Assumes Chair of the OAS Permanent Council
July 17, 2023
Photo: OAS
The Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the Organization of American States (OAS), Audrey Marks, today assumed the Chair of the Permanent Council until September 30, 2023.
During the ceremony, Ambassador Marks said, “I look forward to a very productive chairmanship that will result in tangible and fruitful outcomes for the benefit of our hemisphere,” and highlighted that the OAS General Assembly in June “reminded us of the inextricable links between human rights, democracy and sustainable development.”
In her remarks, the new Chair of the Permanent Council said that many countries in the region, especially in the Caribbean, continue to face challenges such as “food and energy insecurity, non-communicable diseases, challenges to democratic governance and development agendas which are constantly undermined by crime and violence,” and that therefore, multilateral mechanisms such as the OAS Permanent Council “have an even greater role to play as it allows the further deepening of our engagement, in our efforts to collectively address these challenges plaguing our region.”
The Permanent Representative of Honduras, Carlos Quesada will serve as Vice Chair of the Council during the July-September period.
Jamaica takes the Chair of the Council from Uruguay, whose Permanent Representative, Washington Abdala, held it from March to June.
The Chair of the Permanent Council rotates every three months among the member states of the Organization, in alphabetical order. The Vice Chair also rotates every three months, but in reverse alphabetical order.
During the ceremony, the accredited diplomatic body bid farewell to the Permanent Representative of Brazil, Otávio Brandelli, who is ending his functions at the hemispheric Organization.
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