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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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.
Op-Ed: The need to reduce political polarization: new social contract or consensus on specific policies?
December 19, 2022
By Luis Porto
Latin America and the Caribbean face multiple challenges. At the structural level, these include climate change, the scientific-technical revolution, inequality, diversification for productive development, migratory flows, problems of citizen security and organized crime, and the need to strengthen democratic institutions. In addition, at the current juncture, there are economic challenges such as inflation, the increase in informality and indebtedness, and social challenges such as dissatisfaction with democracy, protests and potential conflict. These challenges are related to external shocks and uncertainties that the region faces with multiple vulnerabilities2 and building resilience becomes a necessity.
The development of resilience capacities requires investment, and investors will not invest if uncertainty is high. This is another vicious circle in which the region is embedded, and one that can be broken. The formula is as obvious as it is difficult. The obviousness is that in a framework of uncertainty, the political system must offer predictability. The difficulty is that the political systems in the region are sick of polarization.
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