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.
Dominica Construction Quality Assurance (CQA) Project
Responding to the recent formulation and particularly the upcoming implementation by the
Government of Dominica of varied housing construction financing programs, articulated around
multiple financing mechanisms that are accessible and attractive to both low and middle-income
households, the organization of American States’ Department of Sustainable Development (OAS/DSD)
has undertaken to propose the establishment in Dominica of a Construction Quality Assurance (CQA)
Program. The program’s main objective being to facilitating the integration of multi-hazards
resilient techniques and the implementation of building codes and regulations along with
corresponding enforcement mechanisms in the country’s housing sector and construction practices.
The construction Quality Assurance program has been initiated by the OAS in the Eastern Caribbean
region as a direct response to the extremely high level of damages registered in Grenada after
hurricane Ivan in September 2004. Such level of damages to the housing sector after Ivan supported
the assumption of possible significant failures in that country’s construction practices,
especially when considering that the only schools that did sustain Ivan without damages where
the ones retrofitted by the OAS through an earlier initiative. As the construction quality
assessment studies results emerged, it had become clear that the situation prevailing in pre-Ivan
Grenada, characterized by significant shortcomings in the structural resiliency of homes and the
built environment, and the non application and enforcement of building codes and regulations, were
part of the reasons explaining that level of destruction (as Grenada has an effective Building
codes and regulations), and hence could have been reduced ex ante through the use of multi-hazards
design and techniques.
Over a 6 months period, the OAS has undertaken a detailed assessment of the construction sector
in Dominica, with focus on the housing sector. The CQA studies conducted revealed significant
deficiencies in construction design review process leading to construction permits approval, and
lack of technical abilities of the building professionals to integrate efficiently multi-hazards
resiliency in their construction practices.
This project aims at integrating the fundamental recommendations for successfully implementing
an effective Quality Assurance System (or CQA) in Dominica in: