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.
HEMISPHERIC SECURITY CONFERENCE POSTPONED FOR LATER THIS YEAR
April 23, 2003
A high-level Special Conference on Hemispheric Security, originally scheduled to be held next month in Mexico City, has been postponed to the last quarter of this year. The precise date of the conference is to be determined, “taking into consideration the date of the Special Summit of the Americas.”
The Organization of American States (OAS) Permanent Council so agreed today, in a resolution presented by Mexico’s Ambassador to the OAS Miguel Ruiz-Cabañas.
The Permanent Council, the OAS’ second highest decision-making body that comprises the member states’ Ambassadors, also decided it would instruct the Committee on Hemispheric Security, in its capacity as preparatory body of the Conference, to continue organizing the Conference.
In the resolution, the member states also decided that an update on the status of preparations for the Special Security Conference would be presented to the upcoming 33rd regular session of the OAS General Assembly, slated for Santiago, Chile, in June.
The decision to postpone the security conference follows a request by the government of Mexico, presented by the Permanent Representative, seeking to extend the preparatory period for the Conference, to enable the preparatory body to reach the necessary understanding “to ensure that the results of the Conference are what member states wish for.”