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 REITERATES OFFER TO RECOVER BODIES OF DECEASED COLOMBIAN LAWMAKERS
July 10, 2007
The Organization of American States (OAS) has renewed its willingness to set up an international commission in Colombia to cooperate for the prompt return of the eleven bodies of the Colombian legislators to their relatives.
If good intentions to carry out this humanitarian action existed, there should not be any major problems left to overcome. The logistical aspects and the physical hand over would not be insurmountable obstacles. Along with other international organizations, the OAS stands ready to receive the bodies at an agreed location.
The OAS has called on the relevant persons who must make decisions on this regard, to take the proper steps and necessary practical agreements at the earliest timeframe. Once there is a commitment to meet these humanitarian objectives, we will quickly find an avenue to accomplish them.
Over the last decades, our region has experienced a dramatic suffering by families that have not even been able to claim the bodies of their deceased or disappeared. This ongoing pain in many of our countries should serve as a guide for the necessary action to end this tragedy as soon as possible. It is our hope that these eleven Colombians would not become part of that tragic list of disappeared people in our hemisphere.