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.
OAS SECRETARY GENERAL WELCOMES THE CLOSING OF THE GUANTANAMO DETENTION FACILITIES
January 23, 2009
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, expressed his satisfaction with the decision of the President of the United States, Barack Obama, to close the detention facilities at Guantanamo military base within a year.
The Secretary General pointed out that the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR), an autonomous entity of the Organization of American States, approved in March 2006 a Resolution that urged the immediate closure of the Guantanamo detention facilities, and to transfer the detainees respecting human rights and international humanitarian law. Likewise, he mentioned that the IACHR granted precautionary measures in favor of the Guantanamo detainees, requesting the United States to “take the urgent measures necessary to have the legal status of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay determined by a competent tribunal.”
Finally, Insulza appreciated that one of the first Executive Orders adopted by President Obama within days of assuming the presidency was the provisional suspension of the trials of the Guantanamo detainees, and the closure of the detention facilities within a year.
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