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.
PETER DESHAZO STATEMENT ON HAITI RESOLUTION BY U.S. DELEGATION OAS PERMANENT COUNCIL
September 4, 2002 - Wahington, DC
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
The United States delegation is pleased to support this resolution.
In the view of our delegation, it sends an unmistakable signal of continued OAS engagement in promoting democracy, the rule of law, free and fair elections, and political dialogue in Haiti. It broadens and strengthens the role of the OAS Special Mission, with the specific responsibility to monitor and report on developments there. The resolution is consistent with the spirit and letter of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, reflecting the commitment of member states in the Hemisphere to promote democratic practices.
We are pleased that the resolution reaffirms both the commitments of the Government of Haiti under previous OAS resolutions and new commitments, especially those related to holding free, fair and technically feasible legislative and local elections, to developing a disarmament plan and ensuring a climate of security essential for those elections, and the formation of an autonomous, independent, credible, and neutral Provisional Electoral Council. We urge all sectors of Haitian society to participate fully in this electoral process.
My delegation joined consensus on the language in the resolution supporting normalization of economic cooperation between the Government of Haiti and the international financial institutions. We hope that the technical and financial obstacles that preclude such normalization can be resolved by those parties. The United States, of course, reserves the right to make decisions on international financial institution projects in Haiti on the merits of each individual proposal.
Mr. Chairman. The OAS’s commitment to democracy is well-established. This resolution, however, outlines a still stronger role for it. To carry out its responsibilities, it is essential that the Special Mission to Haiti have adequate resources. This is an urgent need – a clarion call to member and observer states for both immediate and sustained support.
In this regard, Mr. Chairman, the United States is pleased to contribute an additional $500,000 to the OAS Special Mission, an amount which we intend to be an advance on further U.S. contributions to follow.
Finally, my delegation wishes to state what we all know to be true. Adopting this resolution does not resolve the political crisis in Haiti. Words can never do that. Only concrete actions taken to implement the commitments and mandates set forth in this resolution can help resolve the crisis and put the country on the path to strengthening democracy.
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