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.
Project objective:
Contribute to building the capacity of Ministries of Labour and National Machineries for the Advancement of Women to engage in dialogue, exchange of information/experiences and joint formulation of gender-responsive labour policies.
Follow-up to these efforts through a series of participatory gender audits at the Ministries of Labour of Barbados, El Salvador and Peru, with a view to supporting their efforts to mainstream a gender perspective in the operations, policies and programs. For more information on this work, download the results report.
Donor(s): Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Duration: 4 years (January 2008 to December 2011)
Main products:
Institutionalization of a gender approach in the Ministries of Labour of the Americas: Follow-up to the workshops on strategic planning with a gender perspective (CIM, July 2012)
This publication focuses on the follow-up process to a series of sub-regional capacity-development workshops with the Ministries of Labour and National Machineries for the Advancement of Women.
Advancing gender equality in the context of decent work (CIM, November 2011)
This study analyzes the achievements and persistent challenges to advancing women's rights and gender equality in the world of work. It also follows-up on the actions undertaken at the Ministerial level in fulfillment of agreed commitments, re-framing the analysis of the situation of women in the hemisphere in light of the effects of the economic and financial crises on women and men in the labour market.
Training Guide: Gender-Responsive Participatory Strategic Planning (CIM, 2011)
Applying strategic planning with a gender perspective to the labour sector is an effective management mechanism to help foster gender equity and equality in the four components of the decent work framework: promotion of labor rights, work opportunities, improvement of social protection and the strengthening of social dialogue.
Training workshops: Strategic planning from a gender perspective
During 2010, the CIM carried out a series of workshops with representatives from the National Machineries for Women and the Ministries of Labour of the region, on the topic of gender-sensitive strategic planning.