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.
Statement on the Declaration for Rights and Decade for Women, Adolescents, and Girls in Rural Settings in the Americas
July 24, 2023
The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) congratulates the member states for the approval of the Declaration for the Rights of All Women, Adolescents, and Girls in Rural Areas of the Americas. The Declaration, adopted at the 53rd General Assembly, held in June, establishes that between 2024 and 2034 the Inter-American Decade for the Rights of All Women, Adolescents, and Girls in Rural Settings of the Americas will be observed.
The region owes a historical debt to rural women, who mostly live in extreme poverty, far from educational and health centers and other social services and must raise their children alone. In Latin America and the Caribbean, around 58 million women live in the countryside doing fundamental work for food security and caring for the planet. In addition, they preserve and transmit traditional knowledge about health, cultivation and people's care.
Despite the evidence of its relevance, barely 30 percent have access to some form of land ownership. Most live in precariousness and labor informality and extreme poverty. They are at the bottom of the social ladder and are absent from decision-making positions.
The decision to establish the Inter-American Decade is a crucial step because it seeks to build and execute an effective action plan for access to rights, services, and prevention, eradication, and reparation measures for all forms of exclusion, discrimination, and violence suffered by women, adolescents, and girls living in rural settings. The Decade also seeks to position them at the center of the national and regional discussion of rural development policies.
The action plan for the Decade must be intersectoral in nature, involve civil society, States, the various instances of the OAS and the inter-American Human Rights system. Its coordination will be the responsibility of the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM), which since the beginning of 2023 began a process of dialogue with rural women in the region and established a table that promotes the construction of alliances and strategies for the advancement of their rights.
The Inter-American Decade for the Rights of All Women, Adolescents, and Girls in Rural Settings in the Americas is a crucial political-regional event, because it represents the achievement of a struggle by women and rural women's organizations in the region, and because for the first time it incorporates at the top of the inter-American agenda the construction of a work plan that addresses the historical and urgent debt owed to rural women.