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.
OAS will Observe the Referendum on Peace in Colombia
September 2, 2016
Photo: OAS
The Organization of American States (OAS) will observe the referendum on the peace process between the government and the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) on October 2.
OAS Secretary General, Luis Almagro, received from the Ambassador of Colombia to the OAS, Andres Gonzalez, the invitation to observe the plebiscite. The Secretary General said, "We are happy to accept to accompany Colombia through an observation mission to observe an important and fundamental electoral process that would end 50 years of armed conflict."
Secretary General Almagro announced that in the coming days he will appoint the Head of Mission and define the number of members that will make up the team of observers to be deployed in Colombian territory.
For his part, the Permanent Representative of Colombia to the OAS, Andrés González, said to secretary general Almagro that his country made the invitation "for the confidence in the OAS and you" and added, "This historic event it must be surrounded by all the guarantees of full international scrutiny, sufficient transparency and the right of every citizen to freely exercise their sacred right to express themselves at the ballot box."