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.
HEMISPHERE’S CULTURE MINISTERS GATHER IN MONTREAL MONDAY NOVEMBER 13
November 10, 2006
The hemisphere’s ministers of culture are set to open a three-day meeting in Montreal,Canada , next Monday, and are expected to emerge with a list of priority activities to be carried out over the next two years by the Inter-American Committee on Culture. The Montreal meeting is being convened under the auspices of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) of the Organization of American States (OAS), in coordination with the government of Canada.
Speakers at the opening session of the Third Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of Culture and the Highest Appropriate Authorities will include OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert R. Ramdin, Quebec Premier Jean Charest and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Executive Vice President Ciro de Falco. Following the opening, the conference keynote address will be delivered by the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women, Beverley J. Oda.
Among other agenda items, a progress report on existing commitments of the Inter-American Committee on Culture will be presented by its Chair and the OAS Department of Education and Culture.
During their plenary sessions, the culture ministers and senior authorities will consider issues related to the following topics, which are also the areas for priority action:
• Preservation and Presentation of Cultural Heritage;
• Culture and the Enhancement of Dignity and Identity
• Culture and the Creation of Decent Jobs and the Overcoming of Poverty, and
• Culture and the Role of Indigenous Peoples
Before concluding their meeting, the ministers will issue a final declaration, after which they will hold a press conference to outline what was accomplished and what commitments the countries have made in the area of culture.
WHAT : Third Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of Culture and
the Highest Appropriate Authorities
WHEN: Monday, November 13, to Wednesday, November 15, 2006
VENUE: Ritz-Carlton Hotel
1228 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec, Canadá
Telephone: (819) 514-842-4212
Fax: (819) 514-842-4907
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