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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.
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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.
OAS Inaugurates Exhibit, “Vidas Minadas,” by the Spanish Photographer Gervasio Sánchez
November 18, 2010
Photo: OAS
The Permanent Observer Mission of Spain to the Organization of American States (OAS) today inaugurated the exhibit, “Vidas Minadas” (“Mined Lives”), by the Spanish photographer Gervasio Sánchez, in the hemispheric Organization’s Museum of the Americas.
During the ceremony, Secretary General José Miguel Insulza said that “nearly five thousand people every year, most of them civilians with no links to any conflict, die or are mutilated by antipersonnel mines scattered around the world, and fighting this is a priority of our organization.”
He added that this exhibit “shines a light on one of the most important humanitarian issues in our region.”
The Ambassador of the Permanent Mission of Spain to the OAS, Javier Sancho, thanked the Organization for “the work of hosting this photography show.”
Gervasio Sánchez emphasized that “the only way to fight against this scourge is to support the victims without hesitation, without error or economic limitations.”
The exhibit, which will be open to the public between November 18, 2010, and January 2, 2011, gathers some one hundred of Sánchez’s photographs taken since 1997 and seeks to sensitize the public on how antipersonnel mines affect innocent people and at the same time send a positive message about how the victims successfully move on despite their injuries.
The OAS, with the technical support of the Inter-American Defense Board (IADB), created in 1991 an initial assistance program on humanitarian demining in response to requests from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala. Subsequently, the Program of Integral Action against Anti-personnel Mines (AICMA) was born. Humanitarian in character, the program seeks to create safe living conditions, the recovery of affected lands for productive activities, and to provide assistance in the physical and psychological rehabilitation of victims. As of today, AICMA has helped more than 1.250 mine survivors. The Program’s services recently were expanded to support the demining of Suriname, to begin activities in Chile, and to continue to support Ecuador, Peru and Colombia.
In the year 2010, with the conclusion of demining activities in Nicaragua, Central America was successfully declared free of antipersonnel mines.
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