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.
The 40th meeting of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) opens in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, this evening, bringing together national anti-drug commissioners from around the Americas to discuss hemispheric cooperation strategies to reduce illicit drug production, trafficking and abuse.
The Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert R. Ramdin, will open the meeting along with Bolivian Vice President Álvaro García Linera and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship, Mauricio Dorfler Ocampo, who is the current CICAD Chairman. This meeting will mark the twentieth anniversary of the hemispheric anti-drug agency.
The three-day conference will hear updates on the Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism (MEM), a process to assess progress in the fight against illegal drugs in the hemisphere’s nations and in the region as a whole. The meeting will also discuss reports from experts in combating money laundering and will hear presentations on drug sales over the Internet; policies to eradicate illegal crops in Colombia; challenges in tackling the methamphetamine problem in Mexico; and Brazil’s new drug laws. Among other agenda items, the meeting will consider the role of National Drug Observatories in formulating policy in the Americas and the experience of the European Drug and Drug Addiction Observatory.
Officials from the 34 CICAD member countries will receive reports from the experts groups on chemicals and pharmaceuticals, as well as a report on narcotics laws pertaining to the management of assets seized from money-laundering crimes. They will also consider recommendations contained in CICAD’s 2006 annual report to the OAS General Assembly.
The CICAD meeting in Bolivia will also seek to move forward OAS Secretary GeneralJosé Miguel Insulza’s proposal for countries to adopt laws allocating to CICAD less than one percent of assets seized in their jurisdictions for drug-related crimes. Insulza had submitted this proposal to the CICAD last May, urging member states to work on legislative modifications that would make this possible.
At this Santa Cruz meeting, CICAD will also elect a new Chair and Vice Chair for one-year terms.
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