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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.
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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.
OAS and Costa Rica Sign Agreement for Weapons and Ammunition Handling
April 1, 2011
The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Government of Costa Rica celebrated today a Cooperation Agreement to implement the Assistance Program for the Control of Weapons and Ammunitions, through which the Organization will lend a mobile weapons destruction unit to the Central American country.
With the signing, Costa Rica officially joins the regional Program, in which the OAS accompanies Member States in the implementation of the Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials (CIFTA).
The ceremony took place at the headquarters of the Ministry of Security, Government and Police of Costa Rica, with the participation of the Minister of Security, Government and Police, José María Tijerino Pacheo and the OAS Secretary of Multidimensional Security, Ambassador Adam Blackwell, who highlighted that the signing of the Agreement “shows the promise and willingness of the Costa Rican authorities to advance the implementation of CIFTA, in terms of both the operating aspects as well as the development of a national regulatory framework.
Ambassador Blackwell also stressed that “the strengthening of the national capacity to combat the manufacturing and trafficking of illicit firearms is a high priority and the effective controls for these types of arms are essential to guarantee citizen security. During the past four years, the OAS has facilitated the elimination of more than 18,000 firearms and almost 1,500 tons of ammunition in various countries in the region.
According to OAS Department of Public Security data, the illicit trafficking of firearms is a determining factor in the violence and insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean, a region in which only 10 percent of the world’s population resides, but where nearly half of homicides by use of firearms occur.
The Assistance Program for the Control of Weapons and Ammunitions is possible thanks to the Government of the United States, which donated the weapons destruction mobile unit, with the capacity of destroying up to 350 arms and more than 100,000 cartridges of small arms per day.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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