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.
MEXICAN AMBASSADOR WILL STRIVE TOWARDS AN EFFECTIVE DEMOCRACY
September 21, 2007
During his first speech to the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), the new Permanent Representative of Mexico, Gustavo Albin Santos, stated that “the strengthening of democracy requires going past effective suffrage to an effective democracy.”
To attain this, he said, it is essential to “diminish the distance that exists between citizens and their representatives, promoting accountability, transparency and governance, as well as the participation of committed and involved citizens.”
The Mexican diplomat added that the head-on fight against poverty and social exclusion, as well the enduring promotion of sustainable development, are indispensable elements for the consolidation of democracy. “I therefore reiterate here, my country’s commitment with the Democratic Charter, its principles and objectives, as well as the drafting of a Social Charter that will aid the legitimate economic, social and cultural rights of our people,” he said.
Albin also told the Permanent Council, which was chaired by Ambassador Deborah-Mae Lovell, of Antigua and Barbuda, that his country will continue supporting the promotion and protection of human rights.
“Mexico recognizes the OAS as the pre-eminent political hemispheric forum and a permanent space for the promotion of dialogue and cooperation aimed at the consolidation of an inter-American architecture resting on the pillars of democracy, cooperation, integral development, multidimensional security, human rights and the peaceful solution to controversies,” he stated.
Ambassador Albin presented his credentials to OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza on September 13.
During the same session of the Permanent Council, Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin paid tribute to the late Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, Sir John George Melvin Compton, saying that he will be remembered as a man “of great conviction, personal integrity, spiritual generosity and strong character.”
Later on, Dr. Hilary Beckles, professor of the University of the West Indies, made a presentation within the framework of the commemoration of the Bicentennial of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Several permanent representatives made heart-felt comments related to his remarks.
Finally, the President of the Central American Court of Justice, Dr. Ricardo Acevedo Peralta, addressed the Permanent Council on the First Meeting of International and Regional Courts of Justice of the World, which will take place in Managua, Nicaragua, October 4-5.