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.
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO HOSTS OAS CONFERENCE OF HEMISPHERE’S LABOR MINISTERS
September 7, 2007
The fifteenth Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor opens in Trinidad and Tobago next Tuesday, September 11, when the hemisphere’s labor ministers will discuss an agenda of topics under the theme “Making Decent Work Central to Social and Economic Development.”
The oldest Organization of American States (OAS) sectoral conference, the Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor is the hemisphere’s main forum for discussion and decision-making regarding policy priorities and actions on labor issues.
During the three-day conference, to be chaired by Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Labor and Small and Micro Enterprises, Danny Montano—at the Hilton Trinidad & Conference Centre in Port-of-Spain—the delegates will consider in plenary sessions such issues as: decent work challenges in the Hemisphere; strengthening the capacities of Ministries of Labor; gender mainstreaming; creation of employment with emphasis on youth; and social dialogue.
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza will address the opening session, alongside Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister, Patrick Manning; Minister Danny Montano; Mexico’s Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare Javier Lozano Alarcón; and Director General of the International Labor Organization, Juan Somavia.
Before concluding their conference, the labor ministers will elect the chair pro tempore for the next conference, issue a Declaration and Plan of Action of Port-of-Spain, and hold a press conference.
The OAS Department of Social Development and Employment serves as technical secretariat for the Conference. Organized in conjunction with the Trinidad and Tobago government, the upcoming Port-of-Spain meeting marks the first time an Anglophone Caribbean country is hosting the forum of labor ministers from the 34 member states.
To fulfill the mandates of the Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor, the technical secretariat works in close coordination with other international organizations, primarily the International Labor Organization (ILO), the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will also participate at the Conference.