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.
Development of a preliminary inventory of
priority chemical substances, with an emphasis on PTS
A key activity of the Project
was to develop an Inventory of hazardous Chemical Substances. The Inventory is
designed to be a tool to assist countries of the American Hemisphere to
carry out integral management of hazardous chemical substances, during their entire life
cycle; particularly of the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP), identified in the
Stockholm Convention, and of
Heavy Metals, in order to protect citizens and the environment from the harmful
effects of these chemicals while maintaining access to them.
The on-line inventory developed by the DSD is focused in the PTS that include POPs and Heavy
Metals such as mercury, lead and cadmium.
One of the most important
aspects of the inventory is its use as a tool that may assist decision makers, researchers and the public
of the Member Countries in taking concrete action towards the development and
maintenance of an integral national program for SMOC. In particular, the Inventory will become be part of an “intelligent” database that could be a
tool to assess the sound management of the use and trade of PTS, in order to
fulfill the requirements of the
Stockholm,
Basel and
Rotterdam Conventions.
Other objectives of the
Inventory were: i) to help to identify lacks and deficiencies in the current
practices of management and to define possible solutions; ii) to serve as a
convenient tool for information exchange about the use and risks of hazardous
chemicals at the national and regional levels, and for available alternatives to
these products, including examples of best available techniques (BAT) and best
environmental practices (BEP) tested in the region (ecological agriculture, in
situ decontamination and others); iii) to be a useful knowledge base for
collaborative programs with international organizations and/or bilateral donors;
iv) to help to establish some key elements suggested by the countries in the list
published in Program Area E of
Agenda 21 to establish or improve
national systems for the management of chemicals.
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