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.
The OAS and the International Cooperative Alliance to Collaborate in Favor of Member States
September 30, 2019
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The Organization of American States (OAS) and the International Cooperative Alliance today signed a cooperation agreement that will identify common projects of specific cooperation so that both institutions can support member states in their efforts to promote and facilitate the cooperative model, with the ultimate goal of promoting greater inclusion and development in the region.
At the signing ceremony, Secretary General Luis Almagro affirmed that "cooperativism builds trust through the relations of acts of association, and in doing so strengthens the social and political fabric, strengthening democracy and development." He also stressed that the signing of the agreement “demonstrates the need to join forces and strengthen the impact of our practices, showing countries that we have a responsibility and that we are willing to increase dialogue, further improve our articulation and bring them closer to the best possible initiatives.”
For her part, the President of Cooperatives of the Americas, Graciela Fernández, said that the agreement “is a key part of our central project, which is inclusion and sustainable development. We believe that cooperativism is the tool for social inclusion and economic development and it is our deep desire to develop, along with the OAS, projects for the development of social economy where associativism is the central tool.”
The International Cooperative Alliance represents and serves more than 310 cooperative organizations in 109 countries representing more than 1 billion people worldwide.