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.
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO HOSTING OAS SEMINAR
ON FUTURE OF TEACHER EDUCATION
October 28, 2008
Trinidad and Tobago is playing host this week to an Organization of American States (OAS) seminar on teacher education for the 21st century. The conference, which will be held in La Romain October 29-31, brings together early childhood education officials from the 34 OAS Member States to examine the status of the teacher training in the region.
The seminar participants will also discuss the pressing need in the region to strengthen the quality of teacher education to ensure that all teachers have the necessary competencies to provide students with a relevant education for the 21st century.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Education Minister Esther Le Gendre will open the meeting Wednesday morning. Director of the OAS Department of Education and Culture Lenore Yaffee Garcia will also take part in the inauguration, as will Catherine Pognat, representing the Inter-American Council for Integral Development’s (FEMCIDI) Special Multilateral Fund.
The seminar will focus on six main topics: recruitment and selection of future educators; Early childhood education and teacher training; Classroom work; Teacher evaluation and quality assurance; Training of teacher educators: mentor and role model; and Collaboration: public-private sector alliances.
It is the view of the OAS Department of Education and Culture that as the global economy changes and new technologies are introduced, students need to acquire critical skills so they can meet the demands of the labor market. Teachers need to be provided with appropriate training and support for developing and integrating these skills in the classroom. This effort to bring teachers up-to-date with such skills needs to start at the teacher education level with teacher educators, hence the importance of deepening knowledge and information exchange in this area.
The seminar is being convened as part of a hemispheric project “Responses to the Challenge of Improving the Quality of Recruitment and Selection, Initial Formation, Professional Development and evaluation of Teachers in Countries of the Hemisphere.” A FEMCIDI initiative, the project seeks primarily to provide support for education ministries in OAS member states as they create and/or strengthen and implement policies to boltster teacher training capacity and quality education for teachers in general.