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.
REPORT ABOUT LEGAL FRAMEWORKS FOR PAYMENT FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN TO BE LAUNCHED AT THE OAS
June 17, 2009
The Executive Secretariat for Integral Development (SEDI) of the Organization of American States (OAS), through its Department of Sustainable Development, will launch the publication “Legal Institutional Frameworks for Payment for Ecosystem Services: Eight Country Analysis”. This publication examines trends, lessons and experiences that have been developed in the region, as well as the contribution of legal frameworks in facilitating the implementation of Payment for Ecosystem Services. The launch of the publication will take place at the lobby of the Padilha Vidal Room at the OAS GSB Building on June 19, 2009
In addition to the legal analysis, the publication includes an institutional and economic review, identifying methodologies used to develop PES transactions. Furthermore, this publication presents best practices for PES implementation and the inputs that currently underpin the legal and institutional frameworks of this mechanism in eight Member States: Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Peru.
The publication is part of an effort by the Department of Sustainable Development to contribute trends in alternative, innovative, and market-based approaches to address natural resource management, environmental protection and biodiversity conservation among member countries.
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