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.
Sustainable Communities in Central America and the Caribbean
Resilience to Natural Disasters
Through the Sustainable Communities Central America and the Caribbean project, the OAS seeks to support projects that strengthen the member states’ capacity to successfully plan, prevent, manage and mitigate the risk associated to natural hazards at the community level, thereby contributing to their efforts to become more resilient. The following examples of existing or previously implemented projects that would fall under this pillar are provided for reference:
Integrated Natural Risk Reduction as a component of Sustainable Communities: The project would promote a key tool for developing safe, sound urban areas: the hazard map developed with a multi-hazard approach. To reduce the risk of disasters, instead of merely reducing construction vulnerability, a new emphasis is applied on using hazard maps for city expansion and densification, as well as for the planning and construction of safe urban lifelines.
Family Level Resilience to Drought: The project increases rural resilience to drought and decreases migration to urban centers by training community leaders and establishing alternative income sources for family in drought-prone municipalities. Community leaders learn effective water management techniques and build rainwater collection and storage areas in the communities. Also, additional income is generated through a cooperative that recycles plastic bottles, increasing residents’ resilience to periods of drought.
Response Equipment and First-Responder Training for Local Communities: The project provides emergency radio communications equipment and technology training to municipal and community leaders in indigenous communities. Also, first responder training and equipment is provided to volunteer members of disaster response committees throughout the communities. Training includes a full scale emergency situation to test communications equipment, procedures, and protocols.
Early Warning System for Forest Fires: The project implements an early warning detection and response system in a region of remote communities. The project also provides forest firefighter training and communications and firefighting equipment to the central, heavily populated communities. The project enables officials to broadcast radio announcements during future fires to ensure people receive adequate warning and have the opportunity to vacate.
For further information on this project please contact Richard Huber at 202 458 3227 or by email at [email protected].
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Integrated Natural Risk Reduction as a component of Sustainable Communities: The project would promote a key tool for developing safe, sound urban areas: the hazard map developed with a multi-hazard approach. To reduce the risk of disasters, instead of merely reducing construction vulnerability, a new emphasis is applied on using hazard maps for city expansion and densification, as well as for the planning and construction of safe urban lifelines.