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, WTO, and George Washington University Organize Course on Trade Agenda of the Americas
June 19, 2011
The Organization of American States (OAS), jointly with the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the George Washington University School of Law, will hold a course titled, “A Trade Agenda for the Americas: The Doha Program for Development and Trade Agreements in the Hemisphere,” from June 20 to July 1st in Washington, DC.
The class, to be held on the campus of the George Washington University Law School with participants from 15 Latin American countries, will analyze the principal issues on the hemispheric trade agenda, with special emphasis on the Doha Program for Development and the trade agreements ratified by the countries of the hemisphere, which include, among others: the role of trade in strategies for development, access to markets, agriculture, trade in services, investment, and intellectual property rights.
The Director of the OAS Department of Economic Development, Trade and Tourism, Jorge Saggiante, highlighted the need to develop human resources and the capabilities of institutions responsible for the design and implementation of trade policy, and the importance placed by this organization on issues of development. “The OAS makes the most of its technical capacities and its renowned scholarship program to organize this type of course, jointly with the WTO and with the financial support of countries like Spain and Canada, and thus contribute to institutional strengthening in its Member States,” he remarked.
The presentations will be made by experts and analysts from the WTO, the OAS, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and other international and regional organizations, as well as university professors, lawyers and officials from different Latin American countries with broad practical experience in the design and handling of trade policy.
Additional information on this initiative is available here.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.