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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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 Costa Rica to Hold Symposium on Cyber Security
March 29, 2014
The Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE) of the Organization of American States (OAS), in coordination with the Ministry of Science and Technology of Costa Rica, held a regional symposium on Cyber Security in San Jose, Costa Rica, from March 31 to April 4.
The event is divided into three courses, and has three objectives: to promote the teaching of best practices used by groups to responses to telematics incidents in the region, to defend technology platforms in state organizations; to provide a meeting point for the authorities of the OAS member states to discuss and analyze national cyber security policy; and to promote the teaching of mechanisms and techniques to acquire, analyze, preserve and present data that have been processed electronically in a computer environment.
The opening ceremony will be held at the headquarters of the National Center for High Technology in San Jose, Costa Rica, and will feature the participation of the Minister of Science and Technology of Costa Rica, Alejandro Cruz Molina; the President of the National Academy of Sciences of Costa Rica, Gabriel Macaya Trejos, and the OAS representative in Costa Rica, Henry Jova.
An estimated one hundred government officials from Costa Rica will participate, as will representatives of the governments of Panama and Honduras. Experts from the Council of Europe will also take part, together with participants from the Department of Justice of the United States, the Federal Police of Mexico and the Open Web Applications Security Project (OWASP).
WHAT: Opening Ceremony of regional symposium on Cyber Security
WHEN: March 31, at 8:30 local time (14:30 GMT)
WHERE: National Center for High Technology (CENAT. Dr. Franklin Chang Diaz Building, 1.3 km. North of the U.S. Embassy. Pavas, San José, Costa Rica