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.
The OAS and The U.S. LGBTI Chamber of Commerce to Work Together to Generate Data on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Social Inclusion in the Americas
April 19, 2018
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The Organization of American States (OAS) and the U.S. LGBTI Chamber of Commerce today signed a cooperation agreement to develop the Data Research Project entitled: “Generating the Evidence-Base: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity (SOGI) & Social Inclusion and Economic Development”. The project will seek to develop analytical work in the Latin American and Caribbean context to measure the rights and inclusion of LGBTI people and their impact on economic development and the private sector.
At the signing ceremony that took place at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC, OAS Secretary General, Luis Almagro, recalled that through the Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance, the OAS supports member states as well as key LGBTI human rights organizations to improve advocacy and collaborative work with public stakeholders. He also affirmed that “we must be aware of the need to have societies that are more inclusive and respectful of diversity, in which the right to non-discrimination is felt in people’s day to day lives and is recognized by all.”
The President of the U.S. LGBTI Chamber of Commerce, Justin G. Nelson, explained how the lack of data on LGBTI contributions to economy and social welfare affects decision making. “We are not talking a small population or small economics contribution, people at the very baseline must understand that we are economic contributors and that we all do better when opportunities are afforded to us,” he said.
The agreement will also seek to identify governmental counterparts to champion the process of turning analysis and recommendations into public policies that are more inclusive and respectful of diversity.
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