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.
OAS and Panama Organize Meeting of Ministers of Education of the Americas in Panama
February 2, 2015
The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Government of Panama will organize the Eighth Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of Education this Wednesday, February 4 and Thursday, February 5 in Panama City.
The meeting will focus on the theme “Building an Inter-American Education Agenda: Education with Equity for Prosperity,” and its inauguration will include speeches by the President of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela; the Assistant Secretary General of the OAS, Albert Ramdin, who will take part on behalf of the Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza; and the Minister of Education, Marcela Paredes de Vásquez. Also among the speakers during the two-day event will be the Chair of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) of the OAS, Chair of the Permanent Council, and Representative of Suriname to the Organization, Niermala Badrising.
The agenda of the meeting, which brings together the Ministers of Education of the member states, will focus on the principles of intersectorality, interculturality, and collaboration. Specifically, the ministers will receive a report on the work of the Inter-American Committee on Education from 2012 to 2014 and discuss the following issues: quality, equity and inclusion in education; teacher education and professional development; comprehensive early childhood education care; mechanisms for building an Inter-American Education Agenda; cooperation practices in building the agenda; and different perspectives on an institutional framework for education in the Inter-American system.
The closing of the event will feature Minister Paredes de Vásquez and the Executive Secretary for Integral Development of the OAS, Sherry Tross.
WHAT: Eighth Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of Education
WHEN: February 4 and 5, 2015
WHERE: Sheraton Hotel
Via Israel, Calle 77, San Francisco
Panama City
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