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.
On June 17, 2014 the Department of Sustainable Development (DSD) of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Energy and Climate Partnership for the Americas (ECPA) hosted the OAS’s
59th Policy Roundtable. The event was meant to raise awareness as to the dangers of climate change and to address the policy questions surrounding the issue of climate change, merging science and policy. The imminence of the need for immediate action was expressed throughout the Policy Roundtable.
The event was hosted at the Main Building of the OAS and counted with the presence of the representatives from each Member State and representatives of the OAS. The material began with a more technical Climate Change in the Americas Assessment Report by Vincent Barros. Following was a talk given by Ambassador Juan Federico Jimenez Mayor,
Peru Ambassador to the OAS, on good climate governance to ensure sustainable development, bringing the science to the policy. Ambassador Bayney R. Karran,
Guyana Ambassador to the OAS, gave a speech about the importance of climate change policy to the Caribbean.
After the speeches came a discussion panel, moderated by Max Campos, Chief of the Integrated Water Resources Division of the DSD and Claudia S. de Windt, Chief of the Environmental Law, Policy and Good Governance Division of the DSD. Those participating in the discussion were Omar Ramirez Tejada, Executive Vicepresident of the National Council on Climate Change, Cletus Springer, Director of the DSD and Cecilia Conde, Director of Climate Change Research for the Mexican National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change. The panel was followed by an interactive Q&A session and closing remarks.
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