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.
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.
YOUTH OF THE AMERICAS DEBATES SECONDARY EDUCATION WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF MINISTERIAL MEETING
August 13, 2009
Quito, Ecuador. The “Youth Meeting of the Americas on Secondary Education” was inaugurated on Tuesday in Quito, Ecuador, an event organized within the framework of the VI Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of Education.
The Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Albert R. Ramdin; the Minister of Education of the Republic of Ecuador, Raul Vallejo; and the Director General of the National Education Program for Democracy, Luis Monteros Arregui participated in the event’s inaugural ceremony.
In his speech, the OAS Assistant Secretary General reiterated the organization’s commitment to broadening the participation of youth in the formulation of education policies, affirming that “it is very innovative that the young students from high school have the opportunity to share their vision of the educational needs of the region.”
Ramdin also pointed out the main challenges that youth is facing today, including access to education, high levels of poverty, difficulties in entering the workforce, youth violence, and lack of interest in democratic participation.
For his part, the Ecuadorian Minister of Education talked about globalization and the personal proximity that new communication technologies have achieved and how young people can take advantage of those technologies. “There is something that connects us, the youth and the adults, and it is the discovery that the world today is not so big,” he said. Likewise, he advocated for the construction of an inclusive society in which “diversity, tolerance, and pluralism become the basis of social interaction.”
Over 60 young representatives from 11 different countries of the Americas are participating at the gathering, organized by the Ministry of Education of Ecuador and its National Education Program for Democracy, with support from the OAS Executive Secretariat for Integral Development (SEDI). The meeting gives young people an opportunity to share their vision of the educational needs of the region and to debate different education-related issues, such as effective ways of participating and empowering their reality to stimulate true agents of social and political change.
The conclusions of the meeting will be compiled in a report containing the proposals of the youth. The document will be a key input for the VI Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of Education, which was inaugurated Wednesday in Quito.
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