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.
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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) today welcomed some 380 students from the United States, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic to its headquarters in Washington for the 24th Model OAS General Assembly for High Schools. Through this exercise, students learn about the work and role of the OAS as a forum where 34 countries address concerns related to key political, economic, social and security issues facing the Americas.
At the opening ceremony, OAS Permanent Council Chairman Ambassador Izben Williams of St. Kitts and Nevis explained the purpose of the OAS, underscoring the Model Assembly as a vehicle to raise awareness about the regional organization among youth and the general public.
“Ultimately, all of the things we take an interest in are things that cater to the stability and prosperity of the hemisphere,” Williams told the students, elaborating on priorities such as democracy promotion, human rights, social equity, free and fair trade, and combating poverty. Explaining that the Inter-American Democratic Charter is “the kind of pillar on which democracies of the Western Hemisphere rest their hope,” the Permanent Council Chairman also talked about moves to develop a social charter as one mechanism to tackle poverty in the region.
During the Model OAS General Assembly, which continues through Saturday, the students will debate such issues and negotiate resolutions. In his remarks, Ambassador Williams underscored the students’ unique opportunity and responsibility to learn about other countries, telling them that “travel is the enemy of many things”—narrow-mindedness, prejudice, selfishness and intolerance, for example.
“The best thing next to travel is an opportunity to learn as much as you can from people around you about the rest of the world. And this is what this is affording you—an opportunity to learn about the Americas… to foster understanding,” he said.
Irene Klinger, Director of the Department of Communications and External Relations—which organizes the annual Model OAS Assembly—welcomed the students and introduced the Permanent Council Chairman.
Meanwhile, Model Assembly President Beverly Mbu, of The Madeira School in McLean, Virginia, challenged her fellow students, as future leaders, to find solutions to pressing issues that have stretched across several generations.
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