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.
SEMINAR IN PANAMA PROMOTES HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
IN LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN
December 13, 2004
A seminar that opens in Panama City, Panama, on December 15th will put the spotlight on humanitarian aid in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Regional Seminar for the Promotion of Volunteering for Humanitarian Assistance in Latin America and the Caribbean is sponsored jointly by the Organization of American States (OAS), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the White Helmets Commission of Argentina, with the support of Panama’s Foreign Affairs Ministry.
The three-day seminar will explore a variety of regional volunteering initiatives and is addressed to Central America and the Caribbean. A similar activity has been carried out in Montevideo, Uruguay on September 9th and 10th, 2004 for South America. It is an initiative of Argentina’s White Helmets Commission and is being conducted under the purview of a Program the Commission undertakes with the IDB and the OAS.
In recent years, the OAS General Assembly has passed a number of resolutions supporting a hemispheric White Helmets Initiative, to foster the pooling of volunteer efforts by member countries.
The White Helmets Initiative that originated in Argentina and was joined by Uruguay and Paraguay is intended to consolidate a regional volunteer body—bringing together various actors from the countries of the Americas to handle appeals from international organizations to combat hunger and poverty, handle emergencies, and prevent crises and conflicts that emerge from natural disasters.