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.
LATIN AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS MEET IN COLOMBIA TO
STRENGTHEN COOPERATION AGAINST CYBER-CRIME
September 2, 2008
Government representatives from 18 Latin American countries will gather September 3-5, 2008, in Bogotá, Colombia, to participate in a regional workshop aimed at strengthening national legislation in each country against cyber-crime.
A survey conducted by the Organization of American States (OAS) indicated that the people, businesses, and governments of OAS countries are often victims of cyber-crimes such as online identity theft, crimes involving intellectual property, and child pornography shared over the Internet. Yet, as of early 2007, only 15 of the 35 Member States had substantive cyber-crime legislation in place, while only 12 states have enacted procedural cyber-crime legislation.
The three-day workshop will cover the following issues: Substantive and procedural laws required for an effective, comprehensive national legal framework against cyber-crime; Knowledge of best practices and reforms underway in the Americas and other regions of the world regarding cyber-crime legislation; Steps countries can take toward strengthening national cyber-crime legislation; An overview of the Council of Europe’s Convention on Cyber-crime and examples of how countries have implemented it through national law.
Tomorrow’s workshop takes place within the framework of recommendations from the OAS’s Working Group on Cyber-crime, created in March 1999 with mandates of identifying cooperation mechanisms to combat cyber-crime, and completing a diagnosis of national legislation, policies and practices on the topic, among others. The Group is currently chaired by the U.S. Government through its Department of Justice.
Participants of the Bogotá workshop, a collaboration between the OAS, the Council of Europe, the Colombian Foreign Ministry and the United States Department of Justice, include Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
This workshop was preceded by a similar meeting for the Caribbean region which took place May 13-15, 2008, in Trinidad and Tobago. It will be followed by a third workshop, to be held in Central America in early 2009.
For more information about the Working Group on Cyber-crime, please visit http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/cyber.htm
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