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.
In various countries of the hemisphere, gangs have become transnational criminal enterprises that promote “a culture of violence, illegality and despair” and provide fertile ground for further crime and terrorism, said the Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of America States (OAS), Albert R. Ramdin.
“In addition to its terrible human cost, this violence threatens political stability, inhibits social development and discourages foreign investment in the affected regions, which are often in critical need of development,” Ramdin told the OAS Permanent Council yesterday.
The Assistant Secretary General noted that many OAS member states are working at the national, subregional and multilateral levels to address this complex problem. He acknowledged that the OAS has had a limited role in addressing this issue, due to a lack of financial resources, and urged the member states to strengthen international cooperation against criminal gangs.
Eduardo Mendoza, of the OAS Department of Multidimensional Security’s Office of International Threats, presented a report to the Permanent Council on the problem of transnational criminal gangs, particularly in Central America. In El Salvador, for example, gangs were responsible for 60 percent of registered homicides in 2004, he said.
Mendoza talked about the results of an OAS-coordinated meeting held in June in Tapachula, Mexico, where experts from 10 countries of North and Central America examined the issue of criminal gangs, including aspects of prevention, law enforcement and rehabilitation. The OAS was asked to facilitate a greater exchange of information among the countries and undertake a detailed study of the nature and causes of the problem, among other steps.
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