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’s Ambassador Denis Ronaldo Moncada Colindres has presented credentials as his country’s new Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS).
Delivering his accreditation letters to Secretary General José Miguel Insulza at a special ceremony on Tuesday, Ambassador Moncada stressed “the significant changes the hemisphere’s peoples expect of the Organization—now and in the future—in keeping with the rights and interests of its member nations.” He said he looks forward to “being part of this important hemispheric forum and to being involved in discussing issues of interest to our respective countries.”
Secretary General Insulza welcomed Ambassador Moncada, expressing confidence that the Nicaraguan envoy’s presence “will help make our organization even stronger.” Insulza made mention of “the important cooperation between the OAS and Nicaragua” in relation to that country’s electoral processes, adding that he was especially pleased with how the OAS carried out its election-related work during last year’s presidential elections. He said he was also satisfied with the collaboration the Nicaraguan authorities offered the OAS electoral observers.
Addressing the OAS Permanent Council hours after presenting credentials, Ambassador Moncada outlined the policy priorities of Nicaragua’s new Reconciliation and National Unity Government, focused on “promoting the progressive strengthening of relations through friendship and cooperation based on justice and equity.” In that regard, the diplomat announced that the Nicaraguan government would soon launch its policy to combat extreme poverty, under the “Zero Hunger Program.”
Moncada told the Permanent Council meeting—chaired by Venezuela’s Ambassador Jorge Valero—that Nicaragua views Central American, Latin American and Caribbean unity as crucial “if we are to successfully tackle the challenges of globalization in the quest for answers to shared problems and serious issues such as poverty, misery and social injustice, and bring about conditions that are conducive to sustainable growth and development, for which our citizens yearn.”
Among others on hand for the Permanent Council session were Secretary General Insulza; Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin; and the member state ambassadors.