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.
According to Ann Jordan from International Human Rights Law Group, a U.S. nongovernmental organization, pressure must be brought to bear on governments so that they recognize trafficking in women, adolescents, and children as an international crime against human rights, and ensure legislation approaches the issue differently from migration. She added that it was essential to establish an information network enabling governments and civil society to prevent and protect the victims of this scourge.
Experts from Central America, Dominican Republic and the United States on the topic of migration and trafficking in persons agreed that the problem was a human tragedy impossible to quantify as it involved the clandestine operation of national, regional, and international networks also engaged in sex tourism. They noted that it was a crime that should be dealt with through information campaigns and, to that end, called on the mass media to launch a broad educational and preventive campaign.
Laura Langberg, a CIM/OAS expert, then presented the conclusions of a study recently prepared in conjunction with the IIN in Brazil, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic, conducted by NGOs in each of the countries. The report concluded that trafficking in persons was caused, inter alia, by poverty, violence, corruption, and gender and age discrimination. The problem was exacerbated by a reluctance to identify victims out of fear of reprisals, the failure to offer witnesses legal protection, and the absence of the issue from the national social agenda in most countries.
The videoconference, moderated by Univisión anchorwoman María Elena Salinas , is the first of a series of presentations organized by the CIM aimed at drawing attention to the issue in the Hemisphere. The Executive Secretary of the CIM, Carmen Lomellin, underscored the importance of coordinated efforts by governments and civil society to deal with these crimes
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