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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.
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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 CONTRIBUTION TO HURRICANE RELIEF EFFORTS IN GRENADA AND IN
ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
September 15, 2004
The Organization of American States (OAS) on Tuesday made a financial contribution to help Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines recover from the deadly hurricane that struck last week. Hurricane Ivan killed 37 people in Grenada, and destroyed some 90 per cent of buildings. St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ important banana crops and housing suffered heavy damage as well.
“I think it is fundamental that we do everything we can to help,” said Assistant Secretary General Luigi Einaudi while handing over a $25,000 check each—from the OAS’ Inter-American Emergency Aid Fund (FONDEM)—to Grenada’s Ambassador Denis Antoine and St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ Ambassador Ellsworth John.
Einaudi said while the FONDEM contribution may not be significant “in financial terms,” the hemispheric Organization was engaged in efforts to mobilize as much help as possible. He also cited hurricane relief activities which the OAS-affiliated Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) is already undertaking in Grenada, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the other affected countries. PADF Executive Director John Sanbrailo noted that the Foundation had mobilized corporate partners to donate, and that emergency shelter materials were already on the way.
“Grenada has indeed been reduced to rubble,” the Grenadian envoy reported, thanking the OAS for “this first response.” He went on to note the tremendous setback Ivan had dealt Grenada, and outlined the massive damage to his country’s public buildings, hospitals, schools and homes. Antoine listed among urgent immediately-needed items generators to provide electricity, housing and shelter materials, building tools and roofing material.
The Ambassador of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, stressed that Ivan’s economic toll was still being assessed for important sectors like agriculture, housing and infrastructure. But, he noted, Vincentians were mindful what they suffered “doesn’t compare in any way to the devastation that took place in Grenada.”