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.
New Permanent Representative of Barbados to the OAS Presents Credentials
September 4, 2024
Photo: OAS
The new Permanent Representative of Barbados to the Organization of American States (OAS), Victor Fernandes, today presented his credentials to Secretary General Luis Almagro in a ceremony held at the headquarters of the hemispheric Organization in Washington, D.C.
In his speech, Ambassador Fernandes highlighted “the Government of Barbados´s firm commitment to upholding the principles on which the OAS was founded as enshrined in its Charter: guiding democracy, human rights, multidimensional security and integral development in the Hemisphere." He also emphasized that his country “sees the OAS as the premier multilateral Organization in the Americas working to promote peace and strengthening political dialogue.”
Meanwhile the Secretary General, of the OAS, Luis Almagro, recalled that the Caribbean country “has been part of the OAS since 1967 and it has honored the basic principles of our Organization. These four pillars are interconnected, and one cannot exist without the other.” He added that “Barbados has played an important role in essential issues at the OAS such as climate change, natural disasters, gender equality, racial equality and reparations.”
Ambassador Fernandes has served as Chairman of the Barbados National Oil Company, the Barbados National Terminal, and the Barbados Tourism Investment Corporation as well as Director of the National Petroleum Corporation and the Bayview Hospital, among other positions.
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