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.
OAS MEETING OF CARIBBEAN EDUCATION STAKEHOLDERS CONCLUDED IN BARBADOS
August 15, 2008
A group of Caribbean stakeholders concluded a three-day meeting in Barbados today, in which they discussed details of a distance course for educators entitled “Education for Democratic Citizenship in the Caribbean”. The course is spearheaded by the Organization of American States (OAS)in partnership with UWI Open Campus and the Ministries of Education of six pilot territories, and funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
Over the course of the Joint Review and Implementation Meeting, representatives from the Ministries of Education of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago—as well as stakeholders from a broad range of disciplines, including government and politics, teacher education, human rights, gender and citizenship education—reviewed the course script and discussed implementation, monitoring and evaluation issues. Participants also analyzed strategies to promote the distance course in the region to maximize its impact on local, regional and hemispheric policy in the area of citizenship education.
Dr. Hazel Simmons-McDonald, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Principal of the UWI Open Campus, offered opening remarks at the meeting. Lenore Yaffee Garcia, Director of the Department of Education and Culture at the OAS, and Kathryn Dunlop, CIDA’s representative based at the Canadian High Commission, delivered the welcoming remarks.
The early 21st century finds the English-speaking Caribbean at a crossroads in the development of its democracy. On one hand, the Caribbean boasts a healthy tradition of adherence to the institutions, norms, and practices of liberal democracy. On the other hand, there is a realization that democracy is a lived reality, and its successes are not guaranteed by the presence of institutions and law, but by individual attitudes and behavior and by cultural practices which shape human interrelationships. It is in this context that teacher trainees and current classroom teachers from across the Caribbean are being called upon to participate in the “Education for Democratic Citizenship in the Caribbean” course.
The three-year project is expected to strengthen teaching practices at the classroom level so that teachers and students become more democratic and reflective. Specific recommendations emerging from this week’ meeting will be used to finalize the course script and it is anticipated that the course will be piloted in January 2009.
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