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 CONTRIBUTES TO ESTABLISHMENT OF RESOURCE CENTER IN HAITI TO ASSIST PERSONS WITH DISABILITY
February 2, 2009
At the opening of the new Resource Center of Adapted Materials for Persons with Disability, OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin used the occasion to reiterate OAS support for efforts to promote the rights of individuals with disability.
In his opening remarks, Assistant Secretary General Ramdin congratulated the government of Haiti on this landmark accomplishment and on its “ongoing efforts to reclaim and defend the dignity of people living with disability, and to provide the tools that can assist them to realize their full potential.”
Also attending the ceremony were Haiti’s Secretary of State for Persons with Disability, Dr. Michel Peán; Ambassador Janet Sanderson of the United States; members of the diplomatic corps, individuals with special needs and the media.
Ramdin presented 150 wheelchairs, 700 walking canes, Braille paper and several cassette recorders/players that will assist hundreds of persons with disability.
Assistant Secretary General stressed the importance of respect for the rights of all citizens, including people with disability, in strengthening peace, and promoting social and economic development. In underscoring the OAS commitment to this issue, He drew attention to the OAS inter-American Decade for Persons with disability (2006 – 2016) and the organization’s “ongoing commitment to improve human life in our region, to create mechanisms that provide access to opportunity for all.
Noting that the providing equal opportunity, access and acceptance is not only a responsibility of governments, Ramdin observed, “I am indeed gratified to learn that Haitian civil society has been working closely with the Secretariat of State for Handicapped Persons to facilitate full integration of individuals with disability into the economic, political, cultural and social life. I believe that this kind of support is indispensable in order to attain lasting results that will transform and enrich the traditions, customs and habits.”
The official opening of the Resource Center resulted from a joint initiative of the OAS and the government of Haiti with the support of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Ambassador Janet Sanderson, the US Ambassador to Haiti, who also attended the meeting, expressed satisfaction for this partnership with the OAS. Secretary of State Dr. Peán symbolically received the adapted materials and laid out the achievements of the Secretariat of State and its plans to better pursue integration for persons with disability.