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.
Barbados Launches First Pilot Drug Treatment Court Project with OAS Support
February 11, 2014
Barbados formally launched today the country’s first pilot drug treatment court (DTC), a program that offers an alternative treatment for non-violent crimes committed by drug users, which was developed with the support of the Organization of American States (OAS) through the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD).
The Caribbean nation is the seventh country to launch a pilot DTC project under the OAS drug treatment courts program, joining initiatives in Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica, Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Panama.
The opening ceremony, held in the city of Bridgetown, featured the participation of the Chief Justice of Barbados, Marston Gibson; the Attorney General and Minister of Home Affairs, Adriel Brathwaite; the Executive Secretary of CICAD, Paul Simons; the High Commissioner of Canada to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Richard Hanley; High Court Judge of Barbados and Chair of the DTC Steering Committee of Barbados, Randall Worrell; and the Chair of the Barbados Christian Council, Monsignor Vincent Harcourt.
The launching of the DTC in Barbados is a product of the joint work carried out between Barbados and CICAD through a Memorandum of Understanding signed by both in 2013. CICAD, in collaboration with the Judicial Power of Barbados, the National Drug Commission of Barbados and the Canadian Association of Drug Treatment Courts (CADTC), have collaborated with the government of Barbados to provide technical assistance to adapt the DTC approach to national legislation, to train DTC teams and to determine its viability.
The DTC Program is an innovative approach to dealing with non-violent crimes committed by drug-dependent offenders, conditionally directing the accused to treatment instead of jail time. The courts seek to reduce the risk of relapses into drug addiction and repeat offenses, lower the prison population and reduce government spending on incarceration. The treatment program under court supervision receives funding from the Government of Canada.
More information on the DTC program is made available here.
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