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.
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO’S AMBASSADOR TO OAS UNDERSCORES
NEED TO REALIZE FULL POTENTIAL OF DEMOCRACY
January 16, 2003
Trinidad and Tobago’s newly-installed Ambassador, Marina A. Valère, today delivered her first address to the Organization of American States’ (OAS) Permanent Council, calling for greater focus on finding ways for democracy to “realize its full potential.”
Ambassador Valère told the envoys of the nations of the Americas that her government “wholeheartedly supports” OAS initiatives to help member states lay the necessary foundations of democracy.
Reaffirming her nation’s commitment, the Ambassador, who presented credentials at the OAS on Tuesday, asserted that the Caribbean republic is a dedicated member of the inter-American system, and that its engagement mirrors its basic foreign policy priorities: consolidation of democracy, development cooperation, fostering respect for human rights, combating drugs and terrorism, and promotion of free trade, among others.
She elaborated on the support for hemispheric free trade, saying it is reflected as well in Trinidad and Tobago’s bid to host the impending Free Trade Area of the Americas secretariat. She repeated the call for special attention to the situation of the smaller economies and urged all states, large and small, “to pay more than lip service to free trade.”
The Ambassador hailed the OAS’ continued relevance to the Hemisphere and its consensus approach to adopting decisions. “The OAS is uniquely placed to provide leadership on the many opportunities and threats facing member states,” she declared.
Presiding as Permanent Council Chairman for the first time, Guatemala’s Ambassador Arturo Duarte led the delegates in welcoming the newest Ambassador to the OAS’ second highest decision-making body.
Today’s meeting, the first for the year, also heard a report by St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ Ambassador Ellsworth John, on the just-concluded high-level meeting his country hosted on special security concerns of small island states. John described that security meeting as an “unqualified success.” Its centerpiece was a security management model that was approved.
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