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 ASSEMBLY OPENS IN BARBADOS SPOTLIGHTING TERRORISM, POVERTY, ILLEGAL DRUGS AND DEMOCRACY
June 2, 2002
Fighting terrorism, poverty and illegal drugs were among the top issues highlighted as Secretary General César Gaviria and Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur inaugurated the 32nd regular session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States on Sunday evening. The formal opening ceremony and reception took place at the Prime Minister’s residence, at Ilaro Court.
Mr. Gaviria identified mediation of internal political conflicts, human rights promotion, border conflict mediation, and advancing free trade among critical issues in which the hemispheric Organization has taken the lead.
He told the hundreds of participants¾led by Foreign Ministers and other senior member state officials as well as observers and civil society representatives from the Americas¾about the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism that the Foreign Ministers here will consider and adopt, saying it offers a solid and comprehensive legal framework and emphasizes border and financial controls.
Gaviria reported as well on OAS accomplishments and ongoing work on a variety of other priority matters, including the Inter-American Democratic Charter and special security concerns of small island states, stressing the need to adopt all the recommendations on disaster mitigation and prevention, global climate change and regional concerns about nuclear waste transshipment. He also detailed the ongoing Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and OAS efforts in Haiti to mediate the crisis stemming from the May 2000 elections and to investigate the December 17, 2001 violence.
For his part, Prime Minister Arthur spoke about comprehensive anti-terrorism legislation the Barbados Parliament passed recently. He said the anti-terrorism focus by the General Assembly¾which ends Tuesday¾was appropriate given the pall the September 11 terrorist attacks had cast across the entire Hemisphere. He also emphasized the urgency of the region’s development agenda. “More than 170 million souls in this Hemisphere live in poverty,” the Prime Minister stated, pointing also to HIV/AIDS, illegal arms, trans-national crime and ecological disasters as part of “the most severe threat to the stability of our societies.”
Mr. Arthur also urged the Hemisphere’s leaders to provide the Organization with the resources it needs to carry out its enlarged mandates under the Summit of the Americas Action Plan, and offered special recognition to former OAS Assistant General Val T. McComie, of Barbados, who was in attendance.