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.
Claudia
S. de Windt. Dominican lawyer and expert in political sciences.
Specialized in International Environmental Law. Chief of the
Environmental Law, Policy and Good Governance Section and Senior
Legal Specialist of the Department of Sustainable Development
of the Organization of American States OAS. Her work focuses
on the effectiveness of environmental law, access rights and
on good governance for Sustainable Development, areas in which
she has authored numerous publications. Dr. de Windt has worked
with the executive, the judiciary and the legislative branch
throughout the Americas and has broad experience in development
of environmental laws and regulations, in treaties and international
negotiations and conflict resolution. She has directed multiple
international cooperation projects in these subject matters.
Dr. de Windt received her Juris Doctor from the Faculty of Juridical
and Political Sciences of the Ibero-American University
(UNIBE)
in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where she completed her
thesis in maritime law. Dr. de Windt holds master of Laws (LLM)
in International Legal Studies from
American
University’s Washington College of Law.
Prior to joining the OAS, Dr. de Windt was in private law practice
in Dominican Republic, where she counseled international and
local organizations in the areas of contracts, banking, maritime,
corporate and investment Law and alternative dispute resolution.
She is a Judicial Interpreter of the Court of First Instance
of the National District by appointment of the President of
the Dominican Republic. Dr. de Windt is part of the roster of
experts in environmental law of the EU-Central America Association
Agreement. She is the Co-Chair of the Green Growth and the Law
Committee of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform and is also
a member of the Steering Committee of the World Commission on
Environmental Law of the International Union for the Conservation
of Nature (IUCN). Dr. de Windt is admitted to practice in her
country and to the Dominican Bar Association. Languages: native
Spanish, fluent English and working knowledge of French and
Portuguese.
Commonwealth Secretariat. 2010. Saving Small Island
Developing States Environmental and Natural Resource Challenges.
Chapter 18: Trade liberalisation and environmental considerations
for the Caribbean. Co-author;
General Secretariat of the Organization of American
States, 2010. Sustainable Development in the Caribbean.
Contemporary Issues, Challenges and Opportunities. Section
7. Trade liberalisation and environmental considerations
for the Caribbean. Co-author;