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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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.
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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.
OAS General Assembly Resolution to Lift the Suspension of Honduras
June 1, 2011
The Resolution “Participation of Honduras in the Organization of American States" was approved today during the Forty-first Special Session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) to lift Honduras's suspension from its right to participate in the Organization.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
RECALLING Article 22 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter which provides that once the situation that led to suspension of a member state has been resolved, that suspension may be lifted;
CONSIDERING resolution AG/RES. 2 (XXXVII-E/09) which suspended “the Honduran state from the exercise of its right to participate in the Organization of American States, in accordance with Article 21 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter” as a result of the coup d’etat against the constitutional government of that country on June 28, 2009;
SHARING the conviction that democracy is one of our region’s most valued accomplishments and that the peaceful transfer of power through constitutional means and in strict compliance with the constitutional rules of each of our states is the product of a continuous and irreversible process in which the region admits no interruption or setbacks; and
NOTING WITH SATISFACTION the Agreement for National Reconciliation and Consolidation of the Democratic System in the Republic of Honduras signed at Cartagena de Indias on May 22, 2011, by the President of the Republic of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo, and the former President of the Republic of Honduras, José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, witnessed by the mediators Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, President of the Republic of Colombia, and Hugo Chávez Frías, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and noting also its Follow-Up Committee,
RESOLVES:
1. To lift the suspension, with immediate effect, of the right of the State of Honduras to participate in the Organization of American States, which was put into effect by resolution AG/RES. 2 (XXXVII-E/09), adopted on July 4th, 2009 at the Thirty-Seventh Special Session of the General Assembly.
2. To instruct the Secretary General to notify the Government of the State of Honduras of the contents of this Resolution.
3. To instruct the Secretary General to transmit this Resolution to the other organs, agencies and entities of the inter-American system and to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
4. To welcome the Agreement for National Reconciliation and Consolidation of the Democratic System in the Republic of Honduras and its Follow-Up Committee, within the framework of full respect for the principle of non-intervention.
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