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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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.
In its report to the Organization of American StatesPermanent Council today, the high-level mission that recently visited Ecuador renewed its appeal to all Ecuadorians to engage in an urgent national dialogue, facilitated by the OAS, in order to resolve the country’s political situation.
The report, which highlights the mission’s activities and discussions with the main players in Ecuadorian society, was delivered by OAS Acting Secretary General Luigi Einaudi, a member of the delegation that went on the April 26-30 visit. The delegation had gone to get a first-hand view of the situation stemming from the April 20 ouster of President Lucio Gutiérrez, and to seek to collaborate with the authorities as well as all segments of Ecuadorian society “in their effort to strengthen democracy.”
The mission also included Permanent Council Chairman, Ambassador Alberto Borea of Peru, as well as representatives of subregional groups within the OAS. It was created by Permanent Council resolution in the wake of events raised concern among the member countries.
Recalling preventive mechanisms provided for under the Inter-American Democratic Charter, the report reminds the authorities and Ecuadorian society at large that these could be used “to prevent a deterioration of the political system.” The mission recommends that the Permanent Council urge the authorities and all segments of society in Ecuador to find ways of reaching an agreement on a temporary solution to the problem of appointments to the Supreme Court of Justice.
Among other recommendations to the Council, the mission identifies actions to facilitate and promote dialogue in Ecuador, and asks the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to continue monitoring the human rights situation in that country. It also urges other competent organs of the OAS to make every effort to reach an agreement with the government on the measures required to overcome potential problems that could seriously alter the democratic process.
Former Ecuadorian deputy foreign minister Mario Alemán, a special envoy, asked for OAS Permanent Council support in what he termed “this difficult job” of rebuilding Ecuadorian democracy, to make Ecuador an integral part of the hemispheric fraternity of nations. He told the member state representatives that the new government in Ecuador has nothing to hide from the country nor from the international community.
The Permanent Council Chairman said the report would be given a more in-depth study to determine what course of action the OAS should take. He conveyed the collective sense of a number of ambassadors who, commenting on the contents of the report, emphasized the need to help strengthen Ecuadorian democracy.