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 Arístides Royo, Permanent Representative of Panama to the Organization of American States (OAS), today assumed the chairmanship of the Organization’s Permanent Council, calling for structural reforms to provide the hemisphere’s citizens with greater access to education. He also stressed the urgent need for more effective strategies to combat poverty in the Americas.
The Panamanian Ambassador made the comments during a brief ceremony as he received the symbolic gavel from his predecessor, Nicaragua’s Ambassador Carmen Marina Gutiérrez, who served in the Permanent Council’s rotating chair for the past three months. Barbados’ Ambassador Michael King, meanwhile, is the new Vice Chairman of the Council.
Royo, who served as Panama’s president between 1977 and 1982 and was also one of the negotiators of the Panama Canal Treaties, noted the serious inequality in the region and “how distant integration remains.” He cited “the lack of education” as a major cause of poverty in the hemisphere’s nations, noting that one third of Panamanians have to live on less than $200 per year.
Ambassador Royo, who recently presented credentials as Panama’s Permanent Representative to the OAS, hailed the Permanent Council as a forum where the major issues affecting the states are discussed, and said fundamental changes were badly needed in such areas as political parties and tax reform in the countries themselves. “In Latin America, the rich earn more because they pay less and are bigger [tax] evaders. The tax burden falls more heavily on those who earn less,” he observed.
The outgoing Permanent Council Chair reviewed her three months at the helm of the OAS’ second highest decision-making body, noting important initiatives on issues that include a re-evaluation of democracy, institutional strengthening at the hemispheric level, and the new vision articulated by the recently-installed Secretary General, intended to streamline the OAS to be more relevant to the needs of the hemisphere’s people.
A number of the member state representatives were on hand for the ceremony, among them the coordinators of the regional groups.
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