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.
Experts Summoned by the OAS and Government of Mexico Recommend Treating Substance Abuse as a Chronic Disease
October 28, 2010
Addiction to drugs and alcohol is a chronic disease that should be treated and cared for in the national health care system, exactly as care is given to patients with other chronic diseases, such as hypertension or diabetes. This is the consensus of experts from 20 Western Hemisphere countries at a technical meeting led by the Organization of American States (OAS) and Mexico’s Health Ministry in Guadalajara, Mexico, from October 25 to 27.
The experts focused their analysis on the rehabilitation of people who have used and abused drugs and alcohol over a long period of time, with significant costs to their own health, the wellbeing of their families and their communities as a whole. James Mack, Executive Secretary of Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) at the OAS, a sponsor of the meeting together with the Ministry of Health of Mexico, noted that drug dependence is a preventable disease, and that heavy investment is needed in prevention programs to make the use of drugs socially unacceptable.
The Under Secretary for Prevention and Health Promotion of Mexico, Mauricio Hernández Ávila, and the Governor of the Mexican State of Jalisco, Emilio González Márquez, co-hosts of the event, both assigned priority to the treatment and rehabilitation of drug dependent persons, to improve health and public safety. Heavy drug use in many places is associated with petty crimes, committed by people who steal to finance a drug habit that is out of control.
Adam Blackwell, OAS Secretary for Multidimensional Security, said that addressing the nexus of heavy drug use and criminal activity is one of his priorities: removing drug traffickers’ clients from the market, through successful drug treatment and rehabilitation, will help reduce the profits of drug cartels, and contribute to increased public safety and security.
The expert meeting was held under the auspices of the Mexican National Council Against Addiction (CONADIC) and CICAD/OAS. Margarita Zavala, President of the National Family Services System (DIF) and the wife of Mexican President Felipe Calderón, closed the meeting. Expert presentations on the subject of drug dependence from around the Americas will be made available on CICAD´s website – www.cicad.oas.org
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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