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.
The Organization of American States (OAS) concluded today its 53rd General Assembly, held this week at its headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The Assembly approved a resolution urging Nicaragua to cease human rights violations, release political prisoners, and respect religious freedom and freedom of expression, as well as the rule of law.
The States also resolved to recognize the need for the OAS to provide assistance to Haiti in the areas of security, democracy, promotion and protection of human rights and the holding of free and fair elections as soon as possible.
The Assembly also approved resolutions on democracy, promotion and protection of human rights, security and development, aimed at strengthening and deepening the work of the Organization in these areas, among others. The Assembly also approved the OAS budget for the year 2024 in its program-budget.
During this Assembly, elections were held for members of various organs, agencies and entities of the inter-American system, who will assume their functions on January 1, 2024.
In a presential vote, the member states reelected Stuardo Ralón (Guatemala), and elected Christopher Arif Bulkan (Guyana), Gloria Monique de Mees (Suriname) and Andrea Pochak (Argentina) to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for a four-year term.
The member states also elected by acclamation Alejandra Valencia (Colombia) and Eric P. Rudge (Suriname) to the Inter-American Juridical Committee for a four-year term. T. Michael Peay (United States) was reelected to the OAS Administrative Tribunal, also by acclamation, for a six-year term.
For the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA), the member states elected María Victoria Rivas (Paraguay) and Benjamin Berger (Canada) by acclamation for a three-year term, leaving one seat vacant. One seat remained vacant on the Audit Committee.
The Assembly instructed the Permanent Council to hold the elections for the vacant positions on the JSCA and the Audit Committee at the first session to be held after September 23 of this year. The Chair of the Assembly suggested August 23 as the deadline for submitting candidacies, which was accepted by the plenary.
Likewise, the member states determined that the 54th General Assembly will be held in Suriname in 2024.
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