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.
Ambassador Chohfi thanked his colleagues for their confidence in him, noting that this committee recently received 26 mandates from the General Assembly. “This will be an open chairmanship with the idea of maintaining a constructive dialogue among everyone to reach the proposed goals,” the Brazilian diplomat said.
The Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs considers such issues as the administration of justice, human rights, anti-corruption efforts, indigenous peoples, migrant workers, and the fight against racism and intolerance.
Following his election to head the Committee on Hemispheric Security, the Costa Rican Permanent Representative underscored “the challenge and the responsibility to guarantee peace and security in the hemisphere. Security has a multidimensional nature, and for this reason our Organization should continue to develop programs to combat organized crime,” he said.
Security also involves tackling poverty and increasing material benefits to families, in a context of international cooperation, Ambassador Sancho Bonilla said. Such cooperation, he added, “should also be expressed in an effective, coordinated effort to mitigate the effects of natural disasters, as well as to promote human development.” The Committee on Hemispheric Security handles a number of issues, including action against landmines, organized crime, trafficking in persons, the gang problem, the reduction in military spending and small-arms trafficking.
During the same Permanent Council meeting, chaired by Ambassador Henry L. Illes of Suriname, the new Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the OAS, Ambassador María del Luján Flores, made her first address to the hemispheric body. Ambassador Flores, who had presented her credentials this morning to OAS Secretary GeneralJosé Miguel Insulza, said that “the role of the OAS as a catalyst to bring about development is of vital importance and is closely linked to fundamental human rights.”
Meanwhile, Ambassador Joshua Sears of The Bahamas and Ambassador Fernando de la Flor of Peru said farewell to the Permanent Council, having concluded their service as Permanent Representatives of their governments to the OAS.