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 and Colombia Sign Host Country Agreement for Second Ministerial Meeting on Social Development
May 20, 2010
The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Government of the Republic of Colombia today signed the host country agreement for the holding of the Second Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities on Social Development to take place July 8 and 9, 2010, in Cali, Colombia.
The principal subject of the second ministerial meeting will be the Inter-American Social Protection Network, launched in New York City in September 2009, seeking to become a key instrument of hemispheric cooperation. Furthermore, the meeting will serve to discuss the strengthening of social protection systems through single registry systems of beneficiaries, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms, and fiscal sustainability; partnerships between the public sector and non-governmental organizations, academia, the private sector and community organizations to effectively confront extreme poverty, inequality and vulnerability; and the social policy response to the effects of the financial crisis in the Americas and the Caribbean.
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza recalled the important role that Colombia plays in the area of social development and its participation in the first ministerial meeting. “I believe these have been very important years,” he said. “We have very much fine tuned our agenda on the subject of development.”
For his part, the Permanent Representative of Colombia to the OAS, Ambassador Luis Alfonso Hoyos Aristizábal, highlighted the significance of the meeting in the regional context. “We wish to point out that in addition to the joint work being conducted among all the authorities of the continent, this meeting has helped to create and boost the Inter-American Social Protection Network, the results of which will be revealed at this meeting.”
The agreement between the OAS and Colombia as host country defines each party’s responsibilities for the event’s coordination. The ceremony for the signing of the text was held in the Office of the Secretary General at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC.
The ministerial meeting on social development is held every two years. The First Meeting of Ministers and High Authorities on Social Development took place in Reñaca, Chile, in 2008.