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.
In formally signing on to the Inter-American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters, the government of Guyana today renewed its commitment “to confront illegal activities in unity with other states in the hemisphere and reinforces respect for the rule of law as a fundamental value of the inter-American system.”
Ambassador Bayney R. Karran, Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States, signed the (OAS) treaty on his government’s behalf, along with Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin. “Guyana’s signing of this convention will contribute to building security in our hemisphere,” said Ambassador Karran, noting that “at a time when many states of the hemisphere face unprecedented threats to their security through growing sophistication in transnational criminal activities, such as the illegal drug trade and trafficking in arms, it is highly opportune for states to render to one another mutual assistance in criminal matters.”
Elaborating, Karran observed that since the convention was adopted in 1992, it has “buttressed the provisions of Article 2.e of the Charter of the OAS, which establishes as an essential objective ‘the solution of political, juridical and economic problems that may arise among the American states’.” Under the OAS treaty, the states commit to cooperate in investigations, prosecutions, and proceedings that pertain to crimes over which a requesting state has jurisdiction. This convention does not authorize any state party to undertake, in the territory of another state party, the exercise of jurisdiction.
Meanwhile, the Assistant Secretary General hailed today’s signing as an “expression of the ongoing commitment of Guyana to this organization.” He noted as well that many of the treaty’s issues concerning cooperation have been put on the agenda of the Ministers of Justice Meeting. He stressed that “these issues get full attention” because crime itself, including illegal firearms trafficking, has an impact on countries’ socio-economic climate. Ambassador Ramdin argued that by placing emphasis on these issues, “the OAS expresses its relevance” to its member countries.
Ramdin also urged those member states that have not yet signed the treaty to do so as soon as possible, reiterating that crime does not care about borders, and hence “we need to cooperate among ourselves.”
With Guyana, 20 member states have now signed the Inter-American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters, which entered into force April 1996. Eighteen member states have ratified.