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.
NICARAGUA, COLOMBIA COOPERATE ON HUMANITARIAN DEMINING THROUGH OAS
March 30, 2006
At the invitation of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the government of Nicaragua, a technical mission from Colombia visited Nicaragua this week to learn about the Central American country’s experiences in humanitarian mine activities. The mission includes authorities from the Colombian National Observatory of Antipersonnel Landmines and the National Armed Forces.
During its visit, the Colombian mission visited the municipality of Jalapa, in an area near the Honduran border that has a high rate of accidents caused by landmines and other explosive devices. The mission visited survivors of landmine accidents who have participated in a work placement program jointly implemented by the OAS Mine Action Program and the National Technological Institute, though Nicaragua’s National Demining Commission. The mission also met with the Minister of Defense and President of the National Demining Commission, Avil Ramírez, and the Inspector General of the National Army, Major General Ramón Calderón Vindell.
Nicaragua has received support from the international community in its demining activities, due in large part to Article Six of the Ottawa Convention, which states: “Each state party has the right to seek and receive assistance, where feasible, from other state parties.” In the context of this agreement, the government of Nicaragua cooperates with other countries, including Colombia, to implement demining activities in coordination with the OAS Mine Action Program.
Since 2003 the OAS has supported humanitarian mine action efforts in Colombia, where landmines and other explosive devices are responsible for two to three casualties per day.