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.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL OF OAS TELLS U.S. CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE ABOUT HEMISPHERIC SECURITY INITIATIVES
September 28, 2007
Through an updated security agenda, the Organization of American States (OAS) has been actively engaged in helping the region tackle major security challenges of illegal trafficking in drugs, weapons trafficking, transnational organized crime, the emergence of non-state criminal networks, economic dislocations and natural disasters.
Ambassador Albert R. Ramdin, the OAS Assistant Secretary General, underscored these and other issues as he addressed today’s session of the 2007 Annual Legislative Conference Issues Forum of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. Convened by Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (D-NY), the session on “Homeland Security, Terrorism and the Caribbean” focused on Third Border, Container Security and Megaports Initiatives, and drew participation from more than 100 representatives of the African American community from across the United States.
Ramdin opened the session highlighting the major security challenges and noting how, based on the new security agenda launched by the OAS member states at a 2002 meeting in Barbados, the hemispheric body has strengthened the work of its Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), the Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacture of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition and Other Related Materials (CIFTA), the Inter-American Committee on Terrorism (CICTE), activities of the Department of Public Security and new initiatives to strengthen cooperation among national governments and international organizations.
Ambassador Ramdin concluded his remarks by seeking to stimulate discussion during the session on proposals concerning: strengthening law enforcement; increasing the sharing of intelligence; recognizing cross border ramifications of national threats; enhancing cooperation between the Caribbean nations and the US states bordering the Caribbean region; and increasing investment in social policies to combat criminality and poverty, especially among youth.
Among the recommendations emanating from the questions and answer period, was the need for: (a) Caribbean governments to design and cost a comprehensive multidimensional security program as the basis for formal discussions with the US government; (b) sustained collaboration between the management of correctional facilities in the region; (c) field research on the impact in “receiving countries” of the repatriation of criminals from the USA.
The session included presentations by diplomats from the Embassies of Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago as well as specialists on ports security, economic development in the Caribbean, crime prevention and security cooperation.