OEA - CP - Resolución CAAP GT RTPP 309

PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE OEA/Ser.G

ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES CAAP/GT/RTPP-309/26 11 February 2026

COMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATIVE Original: Spanish AND BUDGETARY AFFAIRS Working Group to Conduct the Technical Review of the Program-Budget REPORT OF THE CHAIR OF THE WORKING GROUP ON THE TECHNICAL REVIEW OF THE PROGRAM-BUDGET ON THE DRAFT RESPONSE TO THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE The Chair of the Working Group to Conduct the Technical Review of the Program-Budget is pleased to present the Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Affairs (CAAP) with this report covering the work it carried out on the draft response to the recommendations of the Audit Committee. Based on the distribution of CAAP mandates contained in document CP/CAAP-4189/26 rev. 1, the Committee assigned the task of follow-up and response to the recommendations of the Audit Committee to the Working Group, in order to fulfill the following mandate of the General Assembly: Recommendations of the Audit Committee a) Following the presentation of the annual report of the Audit Committee, the CAAP shall prepare a formal written response to the recommendations of the Committee, which shall be transmitted to the Permanent Council by March 1. The Permanent Council shall, in turn, transmit the approved response to the Audit Committee by March 31. b) The response shall be prepared in collaboration with the General Secretariat and include current status, measures taken, and next steps, besides identifying those with lead responsibility. The Audit Committee presented to the Permanent Council its report on the Annual Audit of Accounts and Financial Statements for the years ended 2024 and 2023, which was distributed as document CP/doc.6093/25. The report contained recommendations for the attention of the Organization

concerning the comprehensive third-party review of the Organization; payment of quotas and the prompt-payment discount; modernization of donor relations; the Reserve Subfund; the real estate strategy and deferred maintenance; OASCORE; and the provision of adequate resources to the Office of the Inspector General and the Office of the Ombudsperson. At its meeting of February 10, 2026, the Working Group considered and agreed on a formal draft response that included information on the current status, actions taken, and next steps to be taken in each case.- 2During the discussions the delegations called on the General Secretariat to make progress with OASCORE, noting the urgency of its successful implementation; this, bearing in mind the resources already invested by the states and the time that had elapsed without tangible results.

CAAP/GT/RTPP 306/26 rev. 1: DRAFT RESPONSE TO THE RECOMMENDATIONS

OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE (Fiscal Year 2024)

(Agreed upon by the Working Group at its meeting of February 10 and forwarded to the CAAP for consideration) This draft response is presented for consideration by the CAAP with the recommendation of the Working Group to forward it to the Permanent Council so that it might formally adopt it and forward it to the Audit Committee. I thank the General Secretariat for preparing the first draft of the response in a timely manner and, in particular, for the support of the delegations in fulfilling the mandate entrusted to the Working Group. Guido Pierri Alternate Representative of Argentina to the OAS Chair of the Working Group to Conduct the Technical Review of the Program-Budget