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 PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR VENEZUELAN DEMOCRACY
June 4, 2002
The nations of the Americas have pledged to help Venezuela consolidate its democracy, with the Foreign Affairs Ministers of Organization of American States (OAS) member states passing a declaration stating their readiness to do so. The declaration was adopted in Barbados today by the 34 OAS member countries, prior to the close of the three-day 32nd General Assembly session.
In the four-point declaration, the nations agreed to provide the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela the support it needs to consolidate its democratic process. The delegations also agreed to “continue applying, without distinction, and in strict accordance with the letter and spirit of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, the mechanisms provided for in the Inter-American Democratic Charter for the preservation and defense of representative democracy, reiterating the rejection of the use of violence to replace any democratic government in the Hemisphere.”
Venezuela’s decision to set up a Truth Commission to investigate the events of April 11 to 14, 2002, was also applauded in the declaration.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Roy Chaderton Matos hailed the declaration, sponsored by his government, as “a clear support to Venezuelan democracy: a recognition of the disruption of democracy through an act of coup d’état, which temporarily destroyed the Constitution and hindered President Hugo Chávez Frías’ efforts to spur national dialogue and reconciliation among Venezuelans.”
Ambassador Roger Noriega, the U.S. Permanent Representative to the OAS, noted that the Organization remains engaged with Venezuela in its difficult moment, and urged the Venezuelan people and government to reach out to the OAS, which, he said, “has opened the toolbox of the Democratic Charter to help reinforce Venezuelan democracy.”