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.
HECTOR E. MORALES, JR., U.S. PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES INTERVENTION OF U.S. PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES, HECTOR E. MORALES, JR. AT THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE PERMANENT COUNCIL
November 5, 2008 - Washington, DC
Mr. Chairman,
Yesterday in cities and towns across the United States, more than 117 million citizens cast their votes for president, as well as for representatives to the U.S. Congress, and for state and local officials. In an historic result, Senator Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States, the first African-American to achieve this office.
Voters here turned out in record numbers to participate in free, fair, and transparent elections, which are the most basic process of democracy. They did not fear retribution or reprisals for their votes, or go to the polls suspecting that their votes would be systematically compromised. They voted in accordance with the rule of law, confident that their voices would be heard.
At national, state, and local levels, the races were vigorous. They were conducted under the watchful eye of a vibrant and free media, which plays such an important role in the integrity of the election process. Far from fearing competition, candidates for elective office thrived on it, taking full advantage of the opportunity to make known their views on the issues and to explain fully why they deserved the voters’ confidence. There were winners and losers. But it is important to note that the innumerable concession speeches across the land – led by Senator John McCain’s – contained pledges to work together for the good of the country without rancor or retribution.
Mr. Chairman, I am very proud of my country today. United States citizens exercised the right to vote yesterday because they were determined to play a role in the future of their country. Let all of us here at the OAS continue our work with similar determination, striving to uphold and defend democracy in our Hemisphere under the Inter-American Democratic Charter. As President-elect Obama stated last night in his victory speech, “If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer."
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