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 Inter-American Committee on Culture Brings Together Senior Cultural Authorities and Experts of the Americas
March 19, 2013
The Inter-American Committee on Culture will bring together experts from the Member States of the Organization of American States (OAS) and representatives of other international organizations on March 21 and 22 at the headquarters of the hemispheric organization in Washington, DC, to discuss and plan joint actions.
During the Fifth Regular Meeting of the CIC, to which 17 representatives from ministries and national institutes of culture have confirmed their attendance to this point, participants will discuss issues related to public and private financing of culture; measurement of the contribution of creative and cultural industries to the economy of the region; and the importance of cultural patrimony, arts and technology to integral development. During the meeting the initial results of the study “The Economic Impact of Cultural and Creative Industries of the Americas,” will be presented. The study was commissioned by the OAS, in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the British Council, to the consulting firm Oxford Economics.
In addition, CIC members will hear information about the proposed Plan of Action of the Social Charter of the Americas in the area of culture; the progress and plans for projects and activities in the framework of the Work Plan of the CIC; and will discuss issues related to the Sixth Inter-American Meeting of Ministers and Senior Authorities of Culture, to take place in 2014.
More information on the CIC and its Fifth Regular Meeting is available here.
WHAT: Fifth Regular Meeting of the Inter-American Committee on Culture
WHEN: March 21 and 22, 2013
WHERE: José Gustavo Guerrero Room
Organization of American States
17th & Constitution Ave. NW
Washington, D.C 20006
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