CP/RES. 912 (1574/06)

TEMPORARY LIFTING OF THE PAUSE
IN THE AWARDING OF NEW SCHOLARSHIPS

(Approved at the meeting of December 14, 2006)

 

THE PERMANENT COUNCIL AND THE PERMANENT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES,

HAVING SEEN General Assembly resolution AG/RES. 2257 (XXXVI-O/06), “Program-Budget of the Organization for 2007, Quotas and Contributions to FEMCIDI for 2007”;

CONSIDERING that said resolution established an immediate and temporary pause in the awarding of new scholarships and that said pause would remain in effect until the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) and the Permanent Council decided, in a joint meeting, to lift it; and

RECOGNIZING that the 2007 scholarship cycle will operate on an exceptional basis,

RESOLVE:

1. To approve the temporary lifting of the pause and to authorize the awarding of new scholarships leading up to the selection in 2007 of students to pursue studies beginning by no later than March 2008.

2. To decide that the scholarship cycle leading up to the selection of students in 2007 will be governed provisionally by the Draft Manual of Procedures of Scholarships and Training Programs of the OAS presented by the Secretariat (CEPCIDI/SCSD/doc.328/06) and that subsequent scholarship announcements will be governed by said Manual once it has been adopted.

3. To set March 15, 2007 as the deadline for definitive adoption of the new Manual of Procedures of Scholarships and Training Programs of the OAS; otherwise resolution AG/RES. 2257 (XXXVI-O/06) shall again be in effect.

4. To decide that, as SPECAF scholarships have their own budgetary allocation and dynamics, they will continue to be awarded based on the same distribution criteria currently employed, on the understanding that this will be done within the authorized budgetary limits of the program-budget of the Organization of American States (OAS) for 2007 and that these scholarships will also be subject to the same maximum total cost per scholarship per academic year that applies to the other scholarships to be awarded in 2007.

5. To set a limit of 34 “self-placed” scholarships and not limit “OAS-placed” scholarships beyond the limit set by the budget, in order to ensure that scholarships are not committed in excess of the number that may be awarded within the existing budget. No country will have fewer than two scholarships in the selection cycle to be conducted in 2007, thereby ensuring access to scholarships by all countries, according priority to less developed countries.

6. That no country may receive in its universities over 40% of the total number of scholarship recipients for graduate studies.

7. To establish a maximum limit of US$30,000.00 on the total cost per scholarship per academic year.