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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.
EXPERTS AND POLICYMAKERS TO MEET IN BOGOTA TO PROMOTE INVESTMENT IN THE REDUCTION OF VULNERABILITY
December 7, 2007
Experts and policymakers will meet December 11-12 in Bogota, Colombia, in the San Carlos Palace, headquarters of the Colombian Foreign Relations Ministry, to explore strategies and mechanisms to increase investments towards the reduction of vulnerability of natural hazards in the economic and social infrastructure.
The meeting titled “Analysis: cost-benefit: proving that investing in the reduction of vulnerability in the Americas is a better option,” is hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Relations and the Office of Disaster Attention of the Interior and Justice Ministry of Colombia, and the Organization of American States’ Department of Sustainable Development, through the Interamerican Mitigation and Disasters Network.
The meeting will bring together more than 40 people, including experts from international organizations and banks, such as the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and specialized agencies from the United Nations; regional intergovernmental specialized organizations, such as the Coordination Center for the Prevention of Natural Disasters in Central America and the Andean Committee for the prevention and Attention of Disasters, private businesses and public organizations.
The gap between potential losses and the capacity of many countries to finance the post-disaster reconstruction has reached alarming levels. The Peruvian Association of Engineers estimates that the cost to reconstruct Pisco and Chincha, from the devastating damages caused by the 7.9 Richter earthquake of August 15, is 600 million US dollars. According to some previsions, the disaster could impact as much as one percent of economic growth, projected in almost 8% of this year; while others believe that the reconstruction process will take the total of that projected growth.
The reduction of risk of natural danger has become a central element of development in the majority of countries of the region. Modest investments in risk reduction can strengthen the communities and can be measured in saved lives, goods protected, families not displaced, and the decrease of interruption of normal development of economic activities.
This type of investments include the adoption of construction codes, the implementation of better planning of the use of land and ordering of territory with consideration of risk. The meeting will contribute, as a first step, to the harmonization of criteria, methodologies and indicators to identify and evaluate risk, and promote common strategies to influence on decision making at all levels and sectors, and fundamentally, among those responsible for planning, finances and national budgets in the OAS Member States.