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.
COSTA RICA UNDERTAKES PROGRAM TO TEACH THE CONCEPT
OF A CULTURE OF LAWFULNESS
October 26, 2007
The Executive Secretariat of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (SE/CICAD) of the Organization of American States (OAS), the National Information Strategy Center (NSIC), the Government of Costa Rica through the Ministry of Public Education, and the Costa Rican Institute on Drugs (ICD) signed a memorandum of understanding for the implementation of the program Culture of Lawfulness in the third year of general basic education.
The program’s goal is to increase the knowledge, attitudes and skills of high school students about the rule of law and the promotion of behaviors that contribute to the prevention of crime, corruption, the use of drugs, and violence. In the Americas, the program is being implemented in Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico and Panama.
Through this cooperation agreement, the program’s methodological tools will be adapted to the Costa Rican conditions and then published. Also, teachers will be trained, and 1,000 copies of the novel Lord of the Flies by British novelist William Golding, winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature, will be distributed. The goal is to institutionalize the program in the Civic Education coursework to guarantee that, in the long term, Costa Rican students have access to the program’s benefits and participate in building and promoting a culture of lawfulness in their own lives.
Although this approach is targeted at the school system, it should also spread beyond to influence new actors and social circumstances at work in Costa Rican society, which is invited to join the initiative.
More information on the CICAD and its activities can be found at: http://www.cicad.oas.org
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