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.
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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.
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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 and Twitter Launch Guide to Best Practices on Cybersecurity and Use of Social Media
September 17, 2019
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The Organization of American States (OAS) and Twitter launched a guide to recommend best practices in the use of social networks, with special attention to the social network of Twitter. Under the title “Media Literacy and Digital Security: Twitter Best Practices,” the guide seeks to offer citizens tools to improve their digital security in the use of social media, in aspects related to account security or monitoring, consumption and distribution of information, as well as tips to maintain security on Twitter.
The guide incorporates useful content on digital literacy, measures to secure devices while on social networks, ways to manage the distribution and consumption of information on twitter, and finally, recommendations on the rules and control of user experience in the use of Twitter.
The Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, said that “it is a great pleasure for the General Secretariat, and for the CICTE Secretariat, to support the region once again in aspects associated with digital security; cooperation that this time includes the elaboration and dissemination of this guide. We want people to use this tool as safely as possible, and this agreement, this guide and these best practices are a valuable contribution to that goal.”
“We are delighted to partner with the OAS to achieve a shared goal of serving as a resource for digital literacy. It is such an important tool for all those who use digital channels to consume information,” said Twitter Vice President of Public Policy, Government and Philanthropy Colin Crowell. “Everyone should be empowered to develop the skills to critically analyze content for credibility and challenge information they are consuming and sharing online.”