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The OAS executes a variety of projects funded by donors. Evaluation reports are commissioned by donors. Reports of these evaluations may be found here.
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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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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) today received a donation from schoolchildren to provide job training for a young Nicaraguan woman who lost both legs in a landmine explosion when she was a child.
William McDonough, Director of the OAS Mine Action Program, accepted the $1,500 donation from Global Care Unlimited, a nonprofit, school-based organization that raises funds and awareness about humanitarian issues. Global Care, based at the Tenafly (N.J.) Middle School, brought together 800 students from 25 schools in the metropolitan New York-New Jersey area to launch its Coalition for Mine Action.
This is the first donation made to a new OAS effort called the Nicaraguan Survivors Assistance Retraining Program, which will provide job skills training to people who have been injured in landmine accidents. As part of its broad Mine Action Program in Nicaragua, the OAS has helped some 400 survivors receive medical treatment, prostheses, counseling and other assistance.
McDonough thanked Global Care for the donation and for raising awareness about the issue. "Our hope is that the Coalition for Mine Action will expand to other schools so that students around the country will be able to raise funds to help more people who have been injured by landmines in Central America," he said.
The Global Care donation has been earmarked for Meylín Elisa Estrada of Juigalpa, Nicaragua. In 1992, when she was about 10 years old, she was chasing a rabbit when she ran under an electric tower and stepped on a landmine that had been planted there during the years of conflict in that country. Meylín Estrada will receive several months of computer training through Nicaragua's National Technological Institute. The program, which also includes training in such skills as sewing and carpentry, is expected to begin in mid-March with the first five students.
The OAS has a comprehensive program to address the landmine problem in Nicaragua and other Central American countries. It includes risk awareness education; support for minefield surveying, mapping and landmine removal; socioeconomic reintegration of formerly mined zones; stockpile destruction; support for a total ban on the production, use and stockpiling of antipersonnel landmines; and establishment of a mine action database.
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