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.
Speeches and other documents by the Secretary General
SPEECH OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL AT THE INAUGURATION OF THE 47TH OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY
June 19, 2017 - Cancún, Mexico
Democracy is a right of the people. At the OAS we have built our coexistence around the basic freedoms of our people.
The construction of democracy is permanent. The agenda demands that every day we renew our commitment to the rights of our citizens to political participation.
The international defense of democracy and human rights are creations of the Inter-American system; security and development depend on them. We must be strong to be coherent. Every word we have agreed to has a deep meaning for our societies. Our heroes gave their lives so that we could build our political systems on basic freedoms: the separation of powers, independence of the judiciary, electoral rights, guarantees of the basic liberties of our people, respect for the right to expression and political dissidence.
Anonymous heroes continue giving their blood even today to reaffirm these basic freedoms. Every social activist murdered, every human rights activist murdered, every environmental activist murdered, every journalist investigating corruption murdered, every political prisoner, every demonstrator who demands his freedom murdered, just as today Fabian Urbina was murdered by the shots of repression, everyone who has died has opened more doors to freedom. Every one, who lives and struggles, moves us forward on this path to democracy with their actions. Every one of the citizens of the Americas is the expression of our democracies, because our legitimacy, that of all of us here, comes from the people and only can be decided by the people. If that legitimization is lost, it will be to our disgrace.
The peace of our peoples depend on the strength of our rights. We will never renounce our rights, we will never renounce peace.
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