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 Contributes to the Improvement of Access to Justice in El Salvador and Guatemala
February 1, 2011
The Organization of American States (OAS) will meet this week with Guatemalan and Salvadoran university authorities to evaluate access to justice activities developed during 2010 and those projected for 2011.
On Wednesday, February 2nd, the OAS Secretariat for Legal Affairs, through its Department of Special Legal Programs, will coordinate a strategy of action with authorities from San Carlos University, Rafael Landívar University and Mariano Gálvez University, designed to help promote access to justice for vulnerable groups in Guatemala.
Furthermore, on Friday, February 4, a meeting will be held in San Salvador in which the OAS General Secretariat will formally deliver computer equipment to the Office of Legal Aid at the University of El Salvador (UES) to improve the assistance given to the most vulnerable sectors of society. In addition to the February 4th meetings, the OAS General Secretariat will sign a cooperation agreement with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the NPO “Pact World” through which the hemispheric Organization will obtain a license for the use and adaptation of an electronic system in the administration of cases followed at university law clinics in several countries of the region.
These events are held in the framework of the project of the Promotion of Access to Justice and Legal Assistance to Vulnerable Groups through the Free University-Sponsored Legal Assistance coordinated by the OAS Secretariat for Legal Affairs, and developed through a cooperation agreement with the Canadian International Development Agency.
WHAT: Meetings with Guatemalan and Salvadoran university authorities
WHEN: Wednesday, February 2nd, and Friday, February 4