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 Marina Valere of Trinidad and Tobago assumed office today as chair of the Organization of American States’ (OAS) Permanent Council, over which she will preside for the next three months. Saint Lucia’s Ambassador Sonia Johnny assumed as Vice Chair, meanwhile.
During a ceremony at which she accepted the gavel from outgoing Chairman Ambassador Henry Illes of Suriname, Ambassador Valere identified a comprehensive approach to hemispheric development as a major issue she intends to give focus in exercising the responsibility of leading the Council, “in the interest of our advancement as a united hemisphere.” This, she says, is in line with the emphasis her Prime Minister, Patrick Manning, included in his address to the OAS Permanent Council last week.
Acknowledging the tremendous confidence being reposed in her and in her country to occupy the rotating Council chairmanship, the Trinidad and Tobago diplomat pledged to give due regard to consultation with all regional groups and delegations within the OAS. Such cooperation will be essential, “if we are to arrive at a happy medium and maintain a tradition of consensus in charting the Organization’s forward course,” asserted Valere. She also lauded Ambassador Illes as well as the outgoing Vice Chairman, Ambassador Ellsworth John of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, for their dedication in conducting the work of the Council.
The outgoing chairman reviewed highlights of his tenure in the chair of the Permanent Council, which changes every three months in alphabetical order of the member states. He noted the important development agenda of the Organization as a primary focus. Illes also thanked the OAS General Secretariat staff, as well as the member state representatives for their collaboration.
Trinidad and Tobago’s chairmanship represents the last in an 18-month succession of Caribbean countries at the helm of the hemispheric Permanent Council, the OAS’ second highest decision-making body that comprises the member states’ ambassadors.