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.
OAS NATIONS RENEW CALL TO RID AMERICAS OF ANTI-PERSONNEL LANDMINES
April 2, 2004
The nations of the Americas today renewed the call for continued action against anti-personnel landmine use and stockpiles in the region, and stressed their strong support for initiatives to designate the hemisphere an anti-personnel landmine-free zone.
During a meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) Committee on Hemispheric Security, two draft resolutions were introduced: one relating to support for the OAS’ Comprehensive Action against Antipersonnel Mines Program in Central America; and the other, to declare the Western Hemisphere an anti-personnel landmine-free zone. The first resolution was sponsored jointly by Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. The Canadian delegation introduced the latter resolution, with several member states co-sponsoring.
Chaired by the Committee’s First Vice Chair, Ambassador Margarita Escobar of El Salvador, the meeting on mine action heard updates on specific initiatives by Central American countries as well as Peru and Ecuador to rid their territories of the deadly devices.
Among other presentations David G. Chaplin, representing the Canadian Mine Action Team, outlined preparations for the Nairobi Conference that will review the 1997 Ottawa Convention for a global ban on antipersonnel landmines. He also commended the OAS for its effective work to rid the hemisphere of landmines and assist victims and their communities, particularly over the last six years, and reported that 32 states in the Americas are now party to the Ottawa landmine treaty.
Ambassador Rose Likins, the U.S. State Department’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs, spoke about her government’s landmine and mine action policy in the Western Hemisphere, underscoring the strong support the U.S. has provided, including funds totaling more than $31 million over the last decade, for mine action programs in Latin America, primarily through OAS-Inter-American Defense Board (IADB) operations.
And, in his update, Unit for the Promotion of Democracy (UPD) Principal Specialist Carl Case highlighted initiatives under the Unit’s Comprehensive Mine Action Program, while Col. Charles Rowcliffe, of the IADB’s Mine Office of the International Staff, focused on “Lessons Learnt and Civilian-Military Cooperation in Humanitarian Demining Operations.”
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