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 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.
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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.
Caribbean Multi-Hazards Resilient Construction Strategy
The main challenge in achieving resiliency against the impacts of natural hazards
(hurricane, floods, tsunami, earthquakes, volcanoes) in the built environment
(mainly housing), particularly within a vulnerability risk reduction context
and as related to the ultimate goal of strengthening communities’ long-term
socio-economic sustainability, is to come up with a comprehensive and operational
framework capable of rallying and integrating all the actors and stakeholders
of that sector around the common goal of achieving long-term resiliency in that
sector, while taking into account the relative interests of each participating group.
For the Construction sector, those actors and stakeholders with whom that sustainable
framework needs to be established are the following:
Homeowners (including government subsidized low-income housing):
take loans for building their homes, and insurances to protect their assets against
natural hazards related damages;
Mortgage Banks: finance the homeowners’ construction through
property loans - and supervise construction stages – in general – as means
for loan disbursements issuance authorizations (quantitative control – in general)
Insurance and re-insurance Agencies: provide insurance coverage for buildings
– sometimes available at home construction stage;
Governmental Building Control Agency(ies): inspect and supervise housing construction – from construction permit
application to occupancy - so that to ensure adherence to the country’s building codes
and standards;
Building Professionals and Associations: architects, engineers, contractors, draftsmen, plumbers
- contracted by homeowners, they get involved at different levels in the construction -
from the construction plan submission to completion (occupancy); and
Construction Materials Providers: determine construction material
availability (quality and quantity) – along with the market forces and government
standards - in which the sector is embedded as resulting from offer and demand
for construction materials ;
Government Customs Offices: determines the quality of the construction materials entering the local market
through applying and enforcing government’s standards associated with building materials.
The effectiveness of the legal framework and the construction practices prevailing in a country’s
building sector fundamentally determine the nature of the synergy existing amongst all the entities
involved in that sector, which in turn, directly affect the level of resiliency of the built
environment (all things being equal). In that regard, achieving hazard resiliency in home
construction appears to be more a public administration/ management issue, than being solely a
structural engineering/ technical one, assuming that knowledge of multi-hazards resilient designs
and techniques are mastered by the building professionals.