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.
Barbados to Host XX Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor
The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Government of Barbados today signed an agreement on the holding of the XX Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor (IACML) that will take place in Bridgetown, Barbados on December 7 and 8, 2017.
At the signing ceremony, the Permanent Representative of Barbados to the OAS, Selwin Hart, explained that the theme his government has proposed for the Conference is: “Building on our achievements and advancing towards social justice, decent work and sustainable development in the Americas.” The topics to be addressed at the meeting include: better coordination between education, training and labor; the implementation of Goal 8 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; and the issue of gender equality and ensuring labor rights and opportunities for vulnerable populations.
For his part, OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro highlighted that today, more than 25 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean are unemployed, and over 130 million people work in the informal economy. “This means they have insecure and precarious jobs, which impedes their ability to build sustainable livelihoods,” he said. The OAS leader added that despite the challenges, “willingness to cooperate and to find common solutions is unquestionable; which makes the issues to be addressed at this upcoming Ministerial all the more important.”