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.
Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, calling for a committee on development, under the Organization of American States’ (OAS) Permanent Council, said it could help simplify the structure and put more focus on the topic of development in member states, on a more consistent basis.
Insulza made the remarks as he address member state ambassadors at the 138th Regular Meeting of the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development l (CEPCIDI), chaired by El Salvador’s Ambassador to the OAS, Abigail Castro de Pérez.
Offering “reflections on political dialogue and partnership within the Inter-American Council for Integral Development,” the OAS Secretary general noted that the proposed committee would also be invested with powers to strengthen technical assistance the organization provides its member states.
During the meeting, the Director of Research and Planning in the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Labor and Development of Small and Medium Size Business, Shanmatee Singh, presented the member state representatives with the Report of the Fifteenth Meeting of Ministers of Labor. That meeting had been held in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, last September.
The delegates also approved two candidacies—presented by Jamaica and Barbados, respectively—to fill vacancies on the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development (IACD). The also considered, among other items, a proposal from the Executive Secretariat for Integral development (SEDI) on strategies to mobilize and raise funds, presented by the Executive Secretary for Integral Development, Alfonso Quiñónez.
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