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.
INTER-AMERICAN AGENCIES STEPPING UP COOPERATION
IN HAITI AND REST OF HEMISPHERE
September 22, 2004
The heads of the Organization of American States and other inter-American agencies and United Nations agencies pledged at a meeting on Monday to work together more closely and more efficiently to help improve the lives of the hemisphere’s citizens. Stepped-up collaboration will begin with initiatives to help Haiti and other Caribbean countries ravaged by catastrophic hurricanes recently.
The Secretary General, a former Costa Rican president who assumed the OAS leadership last week, said existing cooperation and coordination mechanisms were being reviewed to determine whether they adequately address current hemispheric priorities and needs.
Rodríguez noted that a donors’ conference is being considered, stemming from IDB and PAHO reports and evaluations on natural disaster damage in Caribbean countries. He said Monday’s meeting devoted special attention to the effects of recent catastrophic hurricanes that left some 700 dead in Haiti and 37 in Grenada. Some 90 per cent of Grenadian homes were also destroyed by Hurricane Ivan recently.
The participants agreed as well that inter-agency cooperation must be strengthened to prevent and manage the catastrophes, by way of stronger building codes, among other things.
The IDB President said organizations engaged in socio-political, economic and cultural development initiatives in the Americas will implement the OAS Secretary General’s proposals for enhanced coordination among their respective offices in member countries of the hemisphere.
The participants from the other agencies represented at the meeting reaffirmed observations by Iglesias that CARICOM would benefit from technical and financial coordination efforts aimed at addressing the serious problems that affect those countries.