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.
Message from OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro on World Press Freedom Day
May 3, 2017
We celebrate this occasion to remember the value of the principle of freedom of expression in the defense of democracy in our hemisphere and around the world.
This year the day is focused on the role of media in the construction of more peaceful, fair and inclusive societies.
In effect, independent media not tied to the government in power, nor to monopolies or private oligopolies, are fundamental to generating pluralism and building democratic societies.
Citizens must have access to information from various sources in order to form an opinion and to participate actively in the public debate. It cannot be just a dialogue between elites.
That is why we all must defend its independence and pay homage to the journalists that –as a result of the search for truth—have lost their lives in our hemisphere and throughout the world in the exercise of their profession.
The information society, with the internet and social networks, has expanded the opportunities for more people to make their voices heard. However, we must remember that there is still a third of the population of the Americas that finds itself without access to the new technologies.
It is worrying that in some countries official censorship has increased, as have accusations by senior authorities toward the press as well as the dissemination of disinformation, propaganda and “fake news” by made-up media that confuse the population.
As a way to prioritize the defense and stimulation of these values, the OAS created 20 years ago the Special Rapporteurship for the Freedom of Express of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR), whose tireless work in the monitoring and promotion of these rights we recognize.
For the OAS, the promotion of the freedom of expression and the defense of free and safe journalism is part of our commitment to fundamental rights, the rule of law, the OAS Charter and the Inter-American Democratic Charter.
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