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.
Environmental Assessments and Capacity Building
for Trade Liberalization in the Americas: Central America
Panama
Environmental Assessment and Capacity Building for
Free Trade in Panama.
Costa Rica and Guatemala
In the assessment conducted for Costa Rica and
Guatemalasugar cane and melon were selected for the analysis due to the importance of the agricultural sector for Central American economies. The
assessment shows that during 2001, melon exports in both countries increased by
$118 million dollars, expanding the cultivated area in the region to almost
twenty thousand hectares. In the particular case of sugar cane, the analysis
shows how both countries already have trade preferences with the United States, one of
the main destination markets, through the Caribbean Basin Initiative and how
they could be consolidated with an annual 2% increase in the quota if the DR-CAFTA
agreement is implemented. Some of the environmental issues analyzed in the
assessment include the intensive use of water and its contamination from
agricultural activities, as well as the effects of plastic disposal practices and pesticide
use in melon production. Pollution originating from “slash and burn” in sugar cane
plantations and some externalities related to soil and water were also covered.
This assessment includes policy recommendations that have already been discussed
with different stakeholders in the region.
Environmental Assessment and Capacity Building for
Free Trade in Central America Region: Costa Rica and Guatemala.
The OAS/DSD has undertaken a scoping exercise of lessons-learned and capacity
building needs in the area of trade and environment for El Salvador, Honduras
and Nicaragua. The required information for this component was obtained mainly
through a survey that was completed by stakeholders at the national level from
different sectors including private, governmental and non governmental. (NGOs).
Download publications (Spanish).
Download annexes (Spanish).
Summary table with economic, social, environmental, and legal/institutional
impacts of trade liberalization for key sector in Central America.
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