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.
Legal Provisions related to Payments for Ecosystem Services
Water Resource Management
Legislation
Natural Disasters Laws, Norms and Principles
Main Themes and Areas of Action
Water Policy: Addressing issues of water quality, water
rights and concessions, drinking water and sanitation, watershed
conservation, dispute resolution, water use and management, and
transboundary concerns, in both coastal and freshwater systems.
Trade, Investment and the Environment: Addressing
issues relating to environmental protection and conservation in the context
of increasing trade and investment in the region, with a focus on legal
frameworks for environmentally-sound technologies, industrial clean
production, market-based policy instruments, information exchange and
harmonization.
Environmental liability: Focusing on clear and fair
standards of environmental liability and responsibility as a means to
strengthen the effectiveness of environmental regimes.
Economic and regulatory instruments for environmental
management: Advancing the effective and complementary use of regulatory and
economic instruments within environmental legal frameworks.
Clean production
Developing legal frameworks that better promote industrial clean production
through environmental management standards, fiscal incentives and other
administrative and economic tools.
Strengthening judicial institutions and jurisprudence
Supporting modern, efficient and capable judicial institutions, and
promoting the development of jurisprudence, through training and information
sharing.
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