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 Hosts High Level Dialogue on Transition to a Circular Economy in the Americas
May 2, 2015
The Organization of American States (OAS) will host on Monday, May 4, at its headquarters in Washington DC, a high-level dialogue titled “Facilitating the Transition toward Circular Economies in the Americas,” that will be inaugurated by the Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza, and will include the participation of Ton Bastein, from the Organization for Applied Scientific Research of the Netherlands, and William McDonough, Chair of the Meta-Council on Circular Economy of the World Economic Council.
During the event, participants will discuss experiences in Colombia, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago in the framework of the Closed Loop Cycle Production in the Americas program, showing the potential for replication of this program in other countries of the region as a contribution to sustainable development.
The Declaration of Santo Domingo for the Sustainable Development of the Americas resolved to promote sustainable development of all productive sectors in the Hemisphere and foster improved environmental performance of those sectors, promoting sustainable patterns of production and consumption. In this context, the Department of Sustainable Development of the OAS has worked with international strategic partners in introducing and applying the design and production methodology inspired by the design principles of Cradle-to-Cradle. This methodology focuses on developing the circular reuse of everything produced, as an alternative to the linear economic model of “take-make-waste.”
The dialogue will include panel discussions entitled “Potential for a Global Circular Economy?” “Opportunities for Circular Economies in the Americas,” and “Pioneering Circular Economies in the Americas.”
The dialogue will be broadcast live on the OAS Website
WHAT: High-level dialogue on “Facilitating the Transition toward Circular Economies in the Americas”
WHEN: May 4, 2015, 9:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
WHERE: Hall of the Americas
Organization of American States
17th and Constitution Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20006
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