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.
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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.
The Organization of American States (OAS) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are exploring concrete, new ways to bring added dynamism to their relations. The two organizations have expressed interest in stepped-up collaboration on such key issues as natural disasters, combating the urban youth gang phenomenon, and international humanitarian law.
The ICRC also signaled its intention to appoint an official in its Washington office, to be specifically devoted to OAS issues.
OAS Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin Wednesday reviewed these and other related matters with the ICRC’s Delegate General for Europe and the Americas, Beatrice Megevand-Roggo, and Head of the ICRC Delegation in Washington, Geoff Loane.
Enhanced collaboration in this regard “fits within the objective of the OAS leadership to strengthen relations with international organizations at different levels,” the Assistant Secretary General stated, adding, “It fits within the scope of new ways of look at the role of the OAS in the Western Hemisphere, in the context of global developments also.”
Ambassador Ramdin said that, given the ICRC’s proven track record, the OAS would seek stronger working relations and would strengthen the “political profile of the relationship,” which could include regular visits between the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the OAS Secretary General, Assistant Secretary General and Permanent Council. Efforts would be made to bolster collaboration at the technical level as well, it was stressed.
Citing earlier collaboration agreements, including a 2003 memorandum of understanding, Megevand-Roggo described today’s discussions at OAS headquarters as a concrete move “to put more substance to the relationship between the OAS and the ICRC.” She also expressed an interest in strengthening the institutional dialogue at the highest level, so as to develop appropriate institutional and operational contacts regarding specific thematic areas, including political violence as it pertains to the impact on civilians like women children, minority and indigenous peoples, and migration issues and their impact on the security of civilians.
Ramdin and Megevand-Roggo shared the view that more advantage could be taken of their institutions’ shared interests and concerns on a range of issues pertaining the Americas. They noted too that both organizations were already engaged in important initiatives in the countries of this hemisphere, and that collaboration would therefore be very beneficial to those endeavors.