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.
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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.
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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.
MESSAGE FROM AMBASSADOR LUIGI R. EINAUDI ON THE OCCASION OF THE AWARD TO AMBASSADOR VALERIE T. MCCOMIE OF THE ORDER OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
October 17, 2003
Valerie T. McComie served the Organization of American States (OAS) and its member states with distinction for 10 years from 1980 to 1990. It is an honor for me to convey this message to him, on behalf of the OAS, in this ceremony in which the Government of the Dominican Republic is conferring upon him the Order of Christopher Columbus. I am deeply moved that the Government has decided to award him this distinction. I have known him for many years and I am proud to call him colleague and friend.
What do I say about this man who has done so much for so many?
I am reminded of the remarks of the Right Honorable Owen Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados, in Bridgetown in 2002 during the OAS General Assembly. He paraphrased C.L.R. James saying, “Nobody knows what the American peoples are capable of because nobody has attempted to find out.” Val McComie is an outstanding exception to that characterization. We have been fortunate to witness what he has achieved in the interest of the peoples of our region. The Prime Minister recognized Val McComie as a “guiding light and inspiration in building the links between the English-speaking and the non-English-speaking states of this hemisphere…at a time when political contact could have been said to be almost non-existent.”
Perhaps this is key to what Christopher Columbus and Val McComie have in common. To my mind, they are both visionaries who sailed uncharted waters, who came to harbors that became the ports and bridges of the future. Val’s strong belief in the value of cross-cultural contacts and communications forged bridges that we still travel as our partnerships and solidarity increase and deepen. This belief was the true North Star for his compass and he followed that star in faithful service to our hemisphere.
Val, my wife, Carol, and I offer to you and Elia, our congratulations and, in closing, a sailor’s toast: “fair winds to you and following seas.”
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