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 for Multidimensional Security Visits El Salvador
September 25, 2012
The Secretary for Multidimensional Security of the Organization of American States (OAS), Adam Blackwell, is visiting El Salvador from September 25 to 27, a trip on which he will attend meetings and events related to the peace process and the strengthening of public security in the country.
During his visit, the high-level representative of the Inter-American organization will attend the First Meeting of the Technical Coordinating Committee in support of the peace process in El Salvador, in which negotiators, civil society representatives and members of the Humanitarian Commission will take part.
The schedule of activities also includes an Arms Destruction Ceremony for weapons that were surrendered last July, and visits to rehabilitation and reintegration programs, including the Music and Concert programs for young female prisoners at the Ilopango Center and the "Metamorphosis" project in the "Apanteos" prison in Santa Ana, where ex-convicts and former gang members work in the manufacture of shoes.
Other key activities will include meetings with potential donors to fund a prisons initiative in El Salvador and meetings with representatives of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), as well as officials from the Ministry of Justice and Public Security and leaders of El Salvador.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.