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.
IACHR PUBLISHES REPORT ON ACCESS TO JUSTICE AS A GUARANTEE
OF ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS
December 26, 2007
Washington, December 26, 2007 — The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) published the report entitled “Access to Justice as a Guarantee of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: A Review of the Standards Adopted by the Inter-American System of Human Rights.”
The Commission prepared this report as a contribution to help advance the guarantee of economic, social and cultural rights in the region. The IACHR understands that access to justice is an essential component to guarantee that economic, social and cultural rights can be enjoyed. It also believes that access to adequate judicial remedies can help to enhance the institutional framework for social services and policies in the region and to strengthen systems for oversight, transparency and accountability, as well as mechanisms for participation and oversight of public policies in this area.
Accordingly, the report explains the obligations of the States with respect to four core issues: 1) the obligation to remove economic obstacles to ensure access to the courts; 2) the components of due process of law in administrative proceedings concerning social rights; 3) the components of due process of law in judicial proceedings concerning social rights; and 4) the components of effective judicial protection of individual and collective social rights.
The report also provides a conceptual framework for the preparation of progress indicators on this issue. On June 6, 2006, the OAS General Assembly charged the IACHR with preparing such indicators in order to assess progress the States have made in complying with the Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, known as the “Protocol of San Salvador.”
The complete report is available on the IACHR Web site in English and Spanish.
Links
Complete report in English:
http://www.cidh.org/pdf%20files/ACCESS%20TO%20JUSTICE%20DESC.pdf
Complete report in Spanish:
http://www.cidh.org/pdf%20files/ACCESO%20A%20LA%20JUSTICIA%20DESC.pdf
IACHR Web site:
http://www.cidh.org/
Press contact: María Isabel Rivero
Tel. (202) 458-3867
Cell: (202) 215-4142
E-mail: [email protected]
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