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.
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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.
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), César Gaviria, will head a delegation traveling to Caracas to meet with state authorities, evaluate the latest developments and explore how the OAS can support Venezuela in its efforts to strengthen democracy.
Gaviria will report on the results of his fact-finding mission during a special session of the OAS General Assembly scheduled for Thursday, April 18, in Washington. Ambassador Margarita Escobar of El Salvador, who chairs the OAS Permanent Council, will be among those traveling with the Secretary General to Caracas.
"In the last few days, the situation in Venezuela has been of great concern to all democratic countries of the Americas," Gaviria said. "It is important for the OAS to evaluate the situation carefully and determine how we can best support Venezuela in its efforts to consolidate democracy in these difficult times."
The Permanent Council called for the mission and the General Assembly session after a daylong meeting Saturday to consider the evolving situation in Venezuela. In a resolution adopted shortly after midnight, the Permanent Council condemned the recent "alteration of constitutional order" and the acts of violence in Venezuela, and called for the "normalization of the democratic institutional framework…within the context of the Inter-American Democratic Charter."
The Democratic Charter, adopted by the OAS member countries last September, states, "The peoples of the Americas have a right to democracy and their governments have an obligation to promote and defend it."