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.
Secretary General Insulza Participated in Roundtable on Alternatives to Incarceration for Drug Users
May 7, 2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, took part today in a roundtable on alternatives to incarceration for drug-related crimes, in the context of the High Level United Nations General Assembly Thematic Debate in preparation for the 2016 Special Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations on the World Drug Problem.
Secretary General Insulza presented the position of the Americas on the issue, and said there is concern in nearly all the countries of the Hemisphere as to “how to reduce the pressure on prison populations, adjust the proportionality of sentences, and find other options short of incarceration that respect the human rights of drug users and other people involved in small-scale drug crimes.”
The OAS leader recalled that the issue of prison sentences imposed on people with drug-related problems is an issue of particular concern and debate in the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the OAS, which has created a working group under the leadership of Colombia to prepare a technical report on the existing alternatives to guide member countries.
He also recalled that the issue was debated by OAS member states at the General Assembly of Antigua, Guatemala in 2013, and in the Special General Assembly in Guatemala City in 2014, where the "Resolution of Guatemala" was adopted. In addition, he said the issue is a central part of the Report on the Drug Problem in the Americas published by the OAS under his leadership in 2013, in response to a mandate from the Heads of State and Government at the Sixth Summit of the Americas in 2012.
The event, in which the Executive Secretary of CICAD, Paul Simons, also participated, was organized by the Missions of the United States and Colombia to the UN.
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