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.
REGIONAL MEETING ON INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW
August 13, 2003
The first meeting of the National Commissions on International Humanitarian Law of the Americas is slated to take place in the city of Antigua, Guatemala, from August 27 to 29. Besides the representatives of these commissions, all member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) have been invited to participate.
Organized jointly by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the OAS Technical Secretariat for Legal Cooperation, the meeting is supported by the government of Guatemala, and is being convened in keeping with a series of OAS General Assembly mandates. The effective application of international humanitarian law is a continuous process that calls for ongoing effort by the different sectors of government. In order to coordinate this initiative, some governments have set up commissions to evaluate existing national legislation in light of the obligations under international humanitarian law and to make recommendations on implementation at the national level.
Internationally, there are 62 national commissions for the application of international humanitarian law, fourteen of them pertaining to states in the Americas: Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay. Brazil and Costa Rica are about to establish their commissions.
During the upcoming Guatemala meeting the delegates will, among other things, review the operations of these commissions and examine best practices to strengthen cooperation among them, to promote respect for international humanitarian law in the Americas.
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