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.
MINISTERS TO DISCUSS ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN AT OAS MEETING
April 20, 2004
Government ministers and senior officials responsible for women’s affairs will meet at the Organization of American States to discuss the vital role of free trade and economic empowerment of women in promoting gender equality and equity and in fighting poverty in the Americas.
The three-day meeting opens Wednesday, April 21, at 2:30 p.m., and is being organized by the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM). It is the second ministerial meeting convened under an OAS General Assembly mandate to encourage implementation of the Inter-American Program for the Promotion of Women’s Human Rights and Gender Equity and Equality and to advance Summits of the Americas preparation and follow-up.
The ministers will also consider celebrations to mark the tenth anniversary of the Belém do Pará Convention outlawing violence against women, as well as proposals for incorporating a gender perspective into the Fourth Summit of the Americas, to be held in Argentina next year.
Those addressing the opening session are Paulo Paiva, Inter-American Development Bank Vice President; Karen Mason, Director of the World Bank’s Gender and Development Section, representing Bank President James D. Wolfensohn; Luigi Einaudi, OAS Assistant Secretary General; and Florence Ievers, CIM Vice President and Associate Director of Status of Women Canada.
WHAT: Second meeting of ministers and senior officials responsible for women’s affairs
WHEN: Wednesday-Friday, April 21 to 23, 2004
TIMES: Wednesday 2:30 p.m.; Thursday and Friday 9:00 a.m.
WHERE: Hall of the Americas
OAS Main Building
17th Street & Constitution Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006
The opening session will be webcast live via the Internet (www.oas.org)