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.
Mr. Cletus Springer has been Director of the Department of Sustainable Development of the Organization of American States based in Washington D.C since February 2008.
A national of Saint Lucia, Mr. Springer is a graduate of the University of the West Indies (Public Administration and Mass Communications respectively); Oxford Brooks University (Urban Planning Studies); and the Centre for Environmental Management and Planning (CEMP) of Aberdeen University (Environmental Impact Assessment).
In 2001, Mr. Springer completed a 20 year tour of national and regional public service which included stints in Saint Lucia’s Public Service as: Permanent Secretary (Deputy Minister) in the Ministry of Tourism, Public Utilities, Civil Aviation and National Mobilization (1992-94); Permanent Secretary (Deputy Minister) in the Ministry of Planning, Development, Environment and Housing (1994-97); and as Adviser in Policy and Strategy Development with the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Secretariat, based in Saint Lucia (1998-2001).
Mr. Springer served as his country’s Alternate Governor of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He also headed Saint Lucia’s delegation at the Preparatory Meetings for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) and the United Nations General Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States in Barbados.
Prior to joining the OAS, Mr. Springer ran a consulting practice that served a broad clientele including Governments in the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific regions as well as inter-governmental entities such as CARICOM, UNDP, UNECLAC, the Commonwealth Secretariat World Bank, PAHO, and the OAS, among others.
He currently serves as: Chairman of the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI) based in Trinidad and Tobago; member of the CARICOM Task Force on Climate Change and Development; member of the Board of PANOS Caribbean; member of UNEP’s Scientific Advisory Group on Water; member of the Board of the Cropper Foundation and member of the UNDP Experts Group on Vulnerability and Resilience in Small Island Developing States.
Mr. Springer is a part-time Journalist, Musician and Broadcaster. He is also published writer and has authored numerous papers on development issues in Small Island Developing States. He is the winner of 4 Awards for Creative Writing in his native Saint Lucia.
Mr. Springer is married to Saint Lucian, Bernadette Springer and is father to Cleisha-Bernise.