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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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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.
OAS Calls for an Active Private Sector Role to Tackle Insecurity
April 11, 2011
The Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert Ramdin, called on the business community to play an active role in the development of a citizen security framework to address the problem of violence and crime that threaten democracy, peace and prosperity in the region.
Speaking at the Annual Conference of Business Executives (CADE), the OAS Assistant Secretary General said that “we are all responsible for peace and security in our Hemisphere,” and highlighted that “our nations need to develop rules and regulations regarding citizen security that take into account the interdependence and mutually reinforcing relationship of democracy, security and development, where one cannot succeed or be sustainable without the other.”
The OAS official mentioned that one of the major challenges countries face is the need to develop public policies on citizen security that can effectively respond to a democratic society's needs. The next OAS General Assembly, to be held in El Salvador in the first week of June, will focus on the theme “Citizen Security in the Americas.”
Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the United States State Department, William Brownfield, who also addressed the Panamanian private sector, said the security is a shared problem where the responsibility and the solution are also shared. He added that when there are problems affecting many countries and populations, increased collaboration is required; otherwise, criminals will succeed and take advantage of any gaps.
According to Ambassador Ramdin, “in modern governance, governments are to be inclusive in the process of policy-making and their implementation, involving the private sector, labor unions and civil society. With a pragmatic approach, we will be able to use the potential of our societies to tackle the current security threats”. He also explained that this new challenge to democracies “requires that all stakeholders in society play a role in continuing to strengthen our democracies and maintaining peace and prosperity.”
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