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.
THE U.S. SUPPORTS SURVIVORS OF LANDMINES IN CENTRAL AMERICA
September 18, 2007
Thanks to two recent contributions from the government of the United States totaling US$500,000, the Organization of American States (OAS) Office of Humanitarian Mine Action and its Comprehensive Action Against Antipersonnel Mines (AICMA) program continue its support to mine clearance operations and survivors of landmines in Nicaragua and Honduras.
The Victims Assistance in Central America grant will provide US$300,000 for the OAS-administered victim assistance package, which includes: prosthetics, rehabilitation, transportation, subsistence and vocational assistance. A portion of this grant will be used to provide landmine survivor assistance at the National Center for Prosthetics and Orthotics in Managua, Nicaragua, as well as at the Vida Nueva prosthetic outreach center in Choluteca, Honduras. A second grant of US$200,000 will supplement a previous U.S. contribution of US$1,200,000 to assist Nicaragua, the most heavily mined country in Central America, in completing its National Demining Plan by the end of 2008.
The armed conflict in Nicaragua during the 1980’s left many populated areas, including its borders with Honduras and Costa Rica, contaminated with mines. Two goals of the OAS program are to eliminate the threat of landmines by clearing affected areas and to enable the victims of previous accidents caused by landmines to recover from the physical and psychological traumas of their injuries, reintegrating themselves as productive and contributing members of their communities.
The current figures available indicate that there are approximately 42 landmine survivors in Honduras and 1,008 in Nicaragua. The AICMA program identifies landmine survivors in the field, particularly those that have no social security or military benefits, and provides them with transportation from their communities to appropriate rehabilitation centers, lodging, meals, prostheses, therapy, and medications. In collaboration with national partners, AICMA supports a vocational training and placement project for landmine victims, providing technical job training in trades including auto mechanics, computer skills, carpentry, shoemaking, tailoring, and cosmetology.
Since its inception in 1997, the program has provided physical and psychological rehabilitation services to 884 landmine victims as well as
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