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.
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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.
The Organization of American States (OAS) will bring together experts from government and civil society to discuss national and regional strategies for mitigating the threats associated with weapons known as Man Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS). The special meeting of the Committee on Hemispheric Security will take place on Thursday, March 8, at OAS headquarters in Washington.
MANPADS are short-range surface-to-air missiles that can be carried and fired by a single individual. Because they are easily concealed and transported, such weapons are attractive to terrorists, criminals and other non-state actors and thereby pose a unique and significant threat to the international community, particularly to international civil aviation. Although precise numbers are difficult to obtain, it is believed that 500,000 MANPADS are in existence in the world today, thousands of them illegally.
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the global forum for civil aviation, in 2004 called on the international community to enact measures to ensure and maintain effective physical security and management of MANPADS stockpiles. In response, the OAS General Assembly approved a resolution urging member states to, among other things, adopt and maintain strict national controls and security measures on MANPADS, ban their transfers to non-state end users and destroy excess stockpiles.
This special meeting has been convoked to increase awareness of this threat, as well as to promote mitigation strategies that can be implemented by governments of the region. Speakers at the event will include representatives from the ICAO, United Kingdom Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Federation of American Scientists.
A special mobile exhibit will also be on display on C Street, to the side of the main OAS building, on the day of the meeting. Experts from the U.S. Department of Defense will be on hand to answer questions concerning the display, which will include actual MANPADS and information on how they work.
WHAT: Special meeting on “Effective Strategies to Mitigate the Threat Posed by the Use of Man Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS)”
WHEN: Thursday, March 8
9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Simón Bolívar Room
OAS Main Building
17th Street & Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20006
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