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.
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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.
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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.
JACQUI QUINN LEANDRO OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA HEADS OAS WOMEN’S COMMISSION
November 27, 2006
Antigua and Barbuda’s Minister of Labor, Public Administration and Empowerment, Jacqui Quinn-Leandro, has begun a two-year term as President of the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM), following her election by the member country delegations of the Organization of American States (OAS).
Minister Quinn-Leandro, whose government portfolio includes gender affairs, was elected this month during the Inter-American Commission’s 33rd Assembly of Delegates in San Salvador, El Salvador. In remarks to the delegates from around the Americas, she described her election as “a vote of confidence for every girl in Antigua and Barbuda and in capitals around the Caribbean region and indeed the hemisphere as a whole – by signaling to them that as women we can achieve.”
Meanwhile, the CIM Assembly elected Colombia’s Martha Lucía Vázquez as Vice President and voted in the following members of the Executive Committee: Nilcéa Freire of Brazil; María Gabriela Nuñéz of Guatemala; Marie Laurence Lassegue of Haiti; Virginia Borra Toledo of Peru; and Carmen Beramendi of Uruguay.
Surveying how the hemispheric agency has evolved, the new CIM President noted that it was established to champion women’s civil and political rights. Today, some 78 years later, she added, “Women from across the length and breadth of Latin America and the Caribbean now have political rights. They can vote and they can run for the highest offices in government.” She warned, however, that “even though we have made significant strides in women’s representation, there is still discrimination against women where these rights are concerned.”
Democracy without gender equity is “half-baked” democracy, said Dr. Quinn-Leandro, quoting remarks by OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza to the CIM inauguration. She added: “Since women make up more than half of the world population, democracy without gender equity is not yet in the oven.”
Quinn-Leandro expressed appreciation for her election, describing service in this sense as “a higher calling to the international community to advance and promote equal rights for women not only in Antigua and Barbuda, but everywhere in the Americas.” She pledged to devote all her “experience, skills, talents and God-given abilities to serving with distinction and to advancing the objectives of this noble organization.”
In Washington, Ambassador Deborah-Mae Lovell, the Antigua and Barbuda Permanent Representative to the OAS, declared she is “extremely pleased at the outcome of the election.” Lovell went on to note: “The CARICOM countries had a strong candidate in the person of the Hon. Dr. Jacqui Quinn-Leandro who, we are confident, will advance the cause of women throughout the hemisphere.”