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.
The use of chemical products can be an
essential part of social and economic development, but it can also undermine
development if people and the environment are exposed to harmful chemicals. Both urban and rural areas may be at risk due to the use of chemicals,
but rural communities are generally at a greater risk than their urban counterparts.
The socioeconomic costs and consequences arising from the use of toxic chemical products and the fact that poor communities often bear the brunt of these costs must be taken into consideration in the context of the management of chemicals.
In this light, management policy for chemical products must seek to attain a balance between the production and the use of chemical products such that social and economic development is promoted and the detrimental effects of chemicals are diminished.
To respond to trade-related capacity building needs in the area of environmental management,
a project titled “Supporting Trade-related Capacity Building in Environmental Management” was conducted by the Department
of Sustainable Development (OAS/DSD) of the Organization of American States.
The project, based on a thorough analysis and consultation process, aimed to address priorities and challenges of OAS Member States (Western Hemisphere)
on trade-related capacities in environmental management for the Sound Management of Persistent Toxic Substances (PTS).
The project was executed with the participation of relevant regional and multilateral organizations and in consultation with civil society.
More...
Initiatives
Trade of Toxic Chemicals: An Overview of Central America and MERCOSUR
initiatives. Vol I |
Vol II |
Presentation
Background on the management of obsolete pesticide stockpiles in the Caribbean.
Database on Persistent Toxic Substances for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Mainstreaming of Gender Issues in the sound management of chemicals.
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