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 Ministers and High Authorities on Science and Technology Make New Commitments to Promote Connectivity, Access to Transformative Technologies and Youth Empowerment
During the event, officials from member states, experts and academics engaged in discussion and the sharing of good practices on the issue of improving young people’s skills and readiness for industry 4.0, technology foresight as input for policy decisions, active participation by Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in the global economy through science, technology and innovation, and effective public-private-academia collaboration to enhance competitiveness.
The Declaration of Jamaica reflects member states’ commitment to “accelerate the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, reduce the widening technological and social gaps, and pursue a sustainable, green, resilient and equitable future.” The document also makes an urgent call to deepen “regional collaboration and cooperation to ensure connectivity for all in the Americas and close the widening technological and social gaps exacerbated by the pandemic, with a specific focus on ensuring the inclusion of youth, women, rural, remote and indigenous communities, as well as populations in vulnerable situations.”
The Meeting launched the OAS Youth Academy, an platform for training and certification to prepare young people for the jobs of the future.
The OAS Executive Secretary for Integral Development, Kim Osborne, highlighted the concrete results of the meeting and said “we are looking forward to working with member states to reach 10,000 youth by 2024 through the Youth Academy. If one lesson is clear from the COVID-19 experience, it is the need to support those most affected by the pandemic, including students in lower socioeconomic status, women, minorities, and less-skilled workers.”
Another key outcome of the Ministerial was the announcement of the first two Centers of Excellence on Technology Foresight: A Center on Excellence on Blockchain in the State of Hidalgo, Mexico; and a Center on Robotics and A.I. hosted at Universidad Simon Bolivar in Barranquilla, Colombia. Part of the OAS Network of Prospecta Americas, these Centers will promote cooperation in research, engage governments, the private sector and the scientific community of the OAS member states to identify and map future trends and technological developments and provide insights and inputs for the formulation of public policies.
The Declaration of Jamaica will be the framework to advance results-oriented cooperation on science, technology and innovation in the Americas for the period 2022-2024.