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.
PERU’S NEW ENVOY UPDATES OAS ON THE
GROWING DEMOCRACY IN HIS COUNTRY
March 31, 2004
Peru’s new Ambassador, Alberto Alfonso Borea Odría, has told the Organization of American States (OAS) that his country’s “recent painful history” was the most eloquent example of how timely and unequivocal action by the OAS “can spare our peoples deep suffering.”
Addressing the Permanent Council on March 31 for the first time as Permanent Representative—shortly after presenting credentials to Secretary General César Gaviria—Ambassador Borea noted that OAS action, driven by principles and not by interests, can also “strengthen democratic institutions that are indispensable to our coexistence as civilized nations.”
He outlined Peru’s progress in combating corruption and impunity, and warned that “to tamper with institutions in order to concentrate power can only lead to more corruption.” He added: “What we need today is the strength of a united hemisphere.”
Citing public disenchantment with the impunity enjoyed by corrupt and dishonest leaders, he asked the hemisphere for its “unequivocal support” to combat the problem. He also reported that his government had recently provided the OAS with the findings of the National Truth and Reconciliation Commission, underscoring the government’s “legitimate measures to protect the society” from terrorism.
Canada’s Ambassador Paul Durand chaired the Permanent Council session, where the member state representatives all welcomed the new Peruvian envoy.
In presenting credentials earlier in the day, Ambassador Borea Odría pledged he would do his utmost to advance the interest of his government as well the interest of the Americas at large.