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.
Field: Landscape Ecologist, Environmental Impact Assessment and Monitoring, Biodiversity Informatics, and Integrated Coastal Zone Management.
Richard Huber is the Principal Environmental Specialist for the Department of Sustainable Development (DSD) of the Organization of American States. He has degrees from Yale University and Hampshire College in Master of Forest Science and Environmental Engineering. He spent 10 years with the World Bank where he task managed several Environmental Management and Protected Areas projects and worked in environmental and social assessment of World Bank loans. For 10 years he worked assisting Countries establish national parks and protected areas.
He manages thematic issues that implement policies and programs in biodiversity protection and management, OAS member States services, Sustainable Cities in the Americas, the Western Hemisphere Migratory Species Initiative , and ReefFix: An ICZM Coral Reef Restoration, Watershed Management and Capacity Building Demonstration Project for the Caribbean, http://www.oas.org/dsd/IABIN/Component1/ReefFix/ReefFix.htm.
Publications include research supported by the World Bank Research Committee on Least Cost Economic/ Ecological Model for Integrated Coastal Zone Management in the Developing Tropics, Marine System Valuation, and Co-management of Urban Environmental Quality. He completed economic study on Economic Instruments for Policy and Environmental Management in LAC – Lessons from Eleven Countries.
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Field: Landscape Ecologist, Environmental Impact Assessment and Monitoring, Biodiversity Informatics, and Integrated Coastal Zone Management.