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.
World Economic Forum and OAS Leaders Urge Action to Combat Organized Crime and Illicit Trade
February 1, 2014
Global leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland have issued a call for united actions to combat organized crime and illicit trade and announced the development of a global action plan to address the issue to be launched in 2015, a concern shared by the Organization of American States (OAS).
During a meeting of the Global Agenda Council on Illicit Trade and Organized Crime in Davos, the Chair of the Council and OAS Secretary for Multidimensional Security, Adam Blackwell, emphasized that “as we talk about furthering economic integration and prosperity, we must acknowledge the unfortunate evil twin of illicit trade and organized crime and develop concrete strategies to address it.”
At the conclusion of the four-day meeting, the Council, Vice-Chaired by Christina Bain and David Luna, agreed to move forward with the plan, which involves a public-private partnership and will be launched at the annual meeting in Davos in 2015.
The Organization of American States has long made combating transnational organized crime and the illicit trade associated with it a priority, as expressed by the Secretary General of the Organization, José Miguel Insulza, most recently in November at the Fourth Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Public Security in the Americas in Medellin, Colombia, where he urged member states to join together to fight transnational organized crime in a coordinated way.
The Inter-American system has a large network of institutions and conventions relating to the issue of organized crime and illicit trade including the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD); the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE); MISPA itself; the Meeting of Ministers of Justice or Attorneys General of the Americas (REMJA); the Meeting of Ministers of Defense; the Follow-up Mechanism to the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC); and CIFTA, in addition to programs of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF), and the World Bank to support the security efforts of member states.
Illicit trade involves money, goods or value gained from illegal and generally unethical activities, including human trafficking, environmental crime, intellectual property infringements, smuggling of excisable goods, trade and illicit financial flow.
According to the WEF, the global value of illicit trade and transnational activities have been estimated at between 8% and 15% of global GDP, or a total of US$3 trillion compared with a legitimate global trade figure of about US$10 trillion-12trillion. Beyond these numbers, illicit trade and organized crime are significant barriers to economic growth, individual and environmental prosperity, as well as corporate responsibility and individual values.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.