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.
OAS Secretary General meets with the Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico and G20 Sherpa
March 6, 2012
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, today met with the Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico and G20 Sherpa, Lourdes Aranda, to talk about the preparations and agenda of the G20 Leaders’ Summit scheduled for June 2012, and the role that the country is playing as chair of the Group during 2012.
At the meeting, the Mexican diplomat explained that her country’s intend is to hold meetings with OAS Member States not belonging to the G20, in order to address their concerns and priorities and incorporate them into the leaders’ debate in June, an initiative welcomed and supported by Secretary General Insulza.
Other issues discussed at the meeting included: the agenda and importance of the High-Level Hemispheric Meeting against Transnational Organized Crime, held in Mexico City last week; the efforts to combat organized crime in the region; the preparations for the Sixth Summit of the Americas to be held in April in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia; and the coordination of economic policies to address the crisis.
The Mexican Undersecretary was accompanied at the meeting, which took place at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC, by the Permanent Representative of Mexico to the OAS, Ambassador Joel Antonio Hernandez Garcia.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.