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 Secretary General Met with President of Guatemala
May 16, 2014
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, was received today by the President of Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina, at the Presidential Residence in the Guatemalan capital, in a meeting attended by Foreign Minister Fernando Carrera.
During the meeting, the Guatemalan leader and the chief representative of the OAS discussed the cooperation between Guatemala and the Organization, and the current political context in the Hemisphere, with particular emphasis on the latest events in Central America. Moreover, they talked about the progress made in the discussion on the issue of drugs at the hemispheric level and the preparations for the Special General Assembly of the Organization to be hosted by Guatemala on September 19. The hemispheric meeting will focus on the Worldwide Drug Problem in the Americas and has as its objective to comply with the provisions of the "Declaration of Antigua Guatemala: For a Comprehensive Policy against the World Drug Problem in the Americas.” In addition, the two authorities discussed the upcoming Regular General Assembly of the OAS, to be held from June 3 to 5 in Asunción, Paraguay, under the theme “Development with Social Inclusion;” the Summit of the Americas which will take place in 2015 in Panama; and the debate surrounding the “Strategic Vision of the OAS,” begun by Secretary General Insulza and which has as its objective the definition and delimitation of the issues on which the Organization should focus its attention in the future.
Secretary General Insulza also met in Guatemala City with the Deputy Minister for Prevention of Violence and Crime of the Ministry of the Interior of Guatemala, Arkel Benítez, who presented him with the document, “National Policy on the Prevention of Violence and Crime – Citizen Security and Pacific Coexistence 2014-2034,” which the government will launch next Tuesday.
During his visit to Guatemala, the OAS Secretary General also participated, together with President Pérez Molina, in the presentation of the collaborative competition “The Voice of the Youth of the Hemisphere, preventing and minimizing the damage done by drugs.”
The competition is a joint initiative by the OAS General Secretariat and the Government of Guatemala to bring about a creative and complementary exchange in which the youth of the Americas can compete with concrete proposals in the search for new approaches to the worldwide problem of drugs in the Americas.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.