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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.
AT RICE UNIVERSITY, OAS OFFICIAL URGES MORE FOCUS ON POLITICAL AND DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES
October 5, 2007
Political and developmental priorities must be addressed simultaneously by the hemispheric community, and this requires “taking into account in a meaningful way the negative social realities and vulnerabilities in the Americas.”
That assessment came from Organization of American States (OAS) Assistant Secretary General Albert Ramdin, as he spoke Friday at the 2007 Americas Project Fellows Reunion at Rice University in Houston, Texas, stressing the need for “a social safety net to care for the neediest in our societies to fulfill our commitment to community.” On political priorities, Ambassador Ramdin asserted that the indispensable nature of holding free and fair elections remains undisputed. Citing the Inter-American Democratic Charter, he described elections as the cornerstone of representative democracy.
The three-day reunion is being held at the James A. Baker III Institute, named for the former United States Secretary of States, who himself gave opening remarks Thursday. Besides the Fellows of the Americas Project, other participants included Baker Institute Founding Director Edward P. Djerejian, Council of the Americas Vice-President Eric Farnsworth and Latinobarómetro Director Marta Lagos.
The OAS Assistant Secretary General went on to tell the participants that “we need a healthy and well-educated work force that can live in peace and achieve prosperity.” He said those objectives call for functioning political and policy institutions that can translate the values and requirements of the population into the reality of everyday life. “This requires understanding of the underlying causes of poverty and conflict,” said Ramdin, underlining at the same time the need for vision and political commitment at the highest political levels in Government and legislative bodies.
Ramdin also noted the vital role of dedicated investments in education and of social policies that address inequality, inequity, marginalization and discrimination, and poverty eradication.
At their meeting, the fellows are considering an agenda that includes a case study on social entrepreneurship, which examines the use of budgets as a management tool; a leadership case study on dealing with corruption in the police force of La Paz, Bolivia; and a discussion on entrepreneurship and social change in the Americas.
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