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 Organization of American States (OAS), through its Department of Social Development and Employment (DSDE), sponsored this week a Summer School on Consumer Rights: “Development of National Legislation, Comparative and International,” that concluded today in the framework of the Consumer Safety and Health Network (CSHN).
The course was conducted in Montreal, Canada, between July 4 and 9, and was organized by the accredited research center Groupe de recherche en droit international et comparé de la consommation (GREDICC) of the Department of Legal Sciences at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) and the Euro-American Chair on Consumers’ Legal Protection. Participants at the event included renowned professors from prestigious universities in England, France, China, the United States, Spain, Canada, and Brazil, as well as experts on the subject from diverse organizations, such as Consumers International, Greenpeace, and the European Delegation to Canada.
On behalf of the OAS General Secretariat, DSDE Director Evelyn Jacir de Lovo underlined in an inaugural speech the Member States’ joint efforts in the creation of the CSHN to improve and strengthen safety oversight of products in local and regional markets, and contribute to improve consumers’ health throughout the Americas.
Director Jacir also spoke about recent efforts towards the creation of an Inter-American Rapid Alert System on consumer product safety, about which she remarked that “it will contribute directly to improve the health of consumers, through rapid detection and coordinated action to prevent the entry of unsafe consumer products into American markets.”
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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