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.
OAS and Mexican State of Chihuahua to Collaborate on Promoting Integral Development
May 26, 2011
The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Government of the Mexican state of Chihuahua will collaborate on programs, projects, and initiatives on different fronts related to the promotion of integral development, according to an agreement signed today by the Secretary General of the hemispheric Organization, José Miguel Insulza, and the Governor of Chihuahua, César Horacio Duarte.
Among other priority issues part of the agreement are procedures, mechanisms, instruments, and initiatives on matters of security, human rights, childhood, women, youth, migration, social development, and economic development.
During a signing ceremony held at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC, Secretary General Insulza remarked that the agreement provides “a framework for cooperation that does not limit the things we can do together,” and named some of the relevant issues on which collaboration is expected: on social issues, education, childhood and youth, as well as gender issues and matters related to economic development and trade, migration and security.
The head of the OAS also said he hopes the agreement will become “an example for the work we conduct in other countries with other regions on very different issues,” especially since Chihuahua, if only because of its size—it is the largest state in Mexico—represents an important partner and collaborator to the Organization.
For his part, the Governor of Chihuahua recalled that “the more and more complex times we live in now show the extraordinary need for unity among countries in support of peace, education, and basic services that our peoples deserve.” The Mexican authority also remarked on the benefit of the agreement to Chihuahua in particular, a region that faces “phenomena that today are not just regional problems but continental ones,” such as drug trafficking and migration.
Therefore, he said, “to us the relationship, communication, strength and especially the support from all countries is strategic in achieving an improved and better quality of life, and for regaining peace and order.” “To us the signing of this agreement is not just another document,” he added, but reiterated that his government will seek “to take advantage of the great strength of this Organization in benefit of a people that today needs solidarity.”
A gallery of photos of the event is available here.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.