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 MINE-CLEARING OPERATIONS TO CONTINUE IN COLOMBIA
May 1, 2006
Joint landmine-clearing operations by the Organization of American States (OAS) and the government of Colombia will continue in May, in Colombia’s Cerro de La Pita region in the Department of Bolivar. This is the second coordinated operation carried out under an agreement the government and the OAS signed in 2002.
Some 33 mine-fields are scattered across the country and are under the army’s watch, according to Colombia’s National Antipersonnel Landmines Observatory. The mines are being destroyed pursuant to the 1997 Ottawa Convention to ban the deadly devices. The work itself is being carried out by three Brazilian and two Honduran monitors, along with a 28-member Colombian military contingent.
Operations to clear landmines and destroy unexploded ordnance were completed in Mamonal, another part of Colombia’s northern Department of Bolivar, during the first few months of this year.
The Cerro de La Pita operations are expected to last two months. Through its continued support, the OAS boosts Colombia’s anti-landmine efforts, which are coordinated by the National Antipersonnel Landmines Observatory, the highest national authority on mine action.
The OAS covers training and life insurance for the personnel as well as logistical support and international oversight of the operations. The hemispheric organization is also currently assisting with psychological and physical rehabilitation for 20 landmine victims, who were chosen by the Observatory in consultation with the Colombian Comprehensive Rehabilitation Center (CIREC).
Victims are provided with OAS-sponsored transportation, food and lodging and a health-care aide, while the government of Colombia covers medical support.
In early May, a joint OAS-U.S. State Department delegation will meet with senior Colombian officials to coordinate the continuation of the operations. The OAS coordinates humanitarian mine-clearing activities through its Comprehensive Mine Action Program (AICMA), with technical assistance provided by the Inter-American Defense Board .
Official statistics indicate that Colombia sees an average of one accident a day as a result of antipersonnel land mines.
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