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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.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL RAMDIN OUTLINES PROPOSAL FOR STRENGTHENING DEVELOPMENT STRUCTURE IN THE OAS
November 9, 2007
The Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert R. Ramdin, underscored the need for Member States to strengthen the current approach for addressing development challenges in the hemisphere, and in doing so, proposed a new Permanent Committee on Development aimed at integrating the efforts of the regional Organization in this area.
“There is no doubt in our minds that development challenges, if not addressed timely and effectively, can undermine democratic governability and political stability, deteriorate the security environment and in the end threaten democratic institutions,” Ramdin said at a special session of the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CEPCIDI).
Ambassador Ramdin explained that the inter-American system as a whole needs to respond to these needs and challenges in a more coordinated manner. “I believe that the OAS has to provide the political leadership in a process that emphasizes development. One way to do that is to put in place mechanisms that can address these issues with a higher degree of political attention, managerial efficiency and operational effectiveness.”
The creation of this Permanent Committee on Development that the Assistant Secretary General proposed would be part of the OAS Permanent Council and would be consistent with the structures of other key Committees already in place, the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs and the Committee on Hemispheric Security. This, he noted, would “give equal prominence to the three priority areas on the OAS agenda—security, governance and development.”
The Assistant Secretary General stressed that the region shares “the need for a more holistic, comprehensive and result-oriented development paradigm in the Americas that focuses on providing opportunity, equality, and equity to all in our societies.” In this regard, Ambassador Ramdin noted that by bolstering the efficiency and effectiveness of the existing structures “we can also enhance the level of confidence, which in turn may have a positive impact on the capacity of this institutional arrangement to attract the necessary funding,” he added.
In addition, Ramdin noted that the suggested changes, if agreed after due consideration by the Member Sates, would not incur additional cost to the Organization, and would not necessitate Charter changes.
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