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.
AT OAS, PANAMA DEPOSITS PROTOCOL AMENDING CONVENTION ON
INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR RADIO PERMIT
February 5, 2008
Ambassador Aristides Royo, Panama’s Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), today deposited with the hemispheric body his government’s Protocol of Amendment to the Inter-American Convention on an International Amateur Radio Permit.
In accepting the documents from the Panamanian diplomat, OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza said, “This Protocol incorporates into the Convention a provision for reciprocal treatment for amateur radio operators who produce an international radio permit and for permit holders from any member state of the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT).”
Recalling that the Protocol was signed on June 10, 2003, at the 33rd regular session of the OAS General Assembly, held in Santiago, Chile, Insulza noted this is clearly an important Protocol not only because it helps communities during emergencies, but also because it helps countries to consolidate their relations by keeping their citizens in constant communication.
Ambassador Royo explained that his country places great importance on this Convention “because it is a tool to promote and facilitate an invaluable technology exchange between and among radio operators of Europe and the Americas by way of multilateral permit arrangements.”
The Panamanian diplomat further cited substantial benefits to be derived from reduced administrative and logistical costs when radio permit holders are allowed to operate temporarily without the need for additional permits and without having to pay the associated fees, taxes or rates.”
On November 21, 2006, the Republic of Panama became the first country to sign the Protocol of Amendment to the Inter-American Convention on an International Amateur Radio Permit. With today’s Protocol deposit, Panama has also become the first country to ratify the instrument, in keeping with article 4, following National Assembly of Deputies passage, through Law No. 61 of December 21, 2007.
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