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.
It is an honor to be invited to address you today in the tradition of
distinguished personalities of the political and economic spheres. Generally,
this Lecture Series focuses on the areas of democracy, social development,
human rights, and multidimensional security.
Without exaggeration, this range of topics reflects the lethal nature of
climate change, since it is a threat to each and every one of them. Within a
single lifetime, climate change will shake developing countries unevenly,
especially those with fragile governments, migration problems and rapid urban
growth.
Climate change will hinder the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals
and will begin to erode its progress, directly affecting the advance of
development. It will trigger changes in agricultural patterns and increase
water stress in many regions which are already arid. In fact, climate change
has been recognized by the Department of Defense of the United States as a
security threat. Moreover, climate change will change what we understand by
human rights today.
The Americas are represented from side to side in the Organization of American
States. And also from one side to another, the continent faces the full range
of impacts and vulnerabilities of climate change, although of course each
country individually has its own challenges in adapting.
According to recent research, climate change vulnerability in the Caribbean,
Central America and some countries in South America is "high" and will no
doubt be "severe and intense" by 2030, while the vulnerability of the North
American economy to the impact of climate change will be high and the habitat
loss, intense.
But each of the countries of the continent has a number of key opportunities
to address climate change by promoting sustainable development both from the
perspective of adaptation and from the perspective of mitigation. It is
important to take full advantage of these opportunities. And currently there
is no better way to take advantage of them than by implementing the Cancun
Accords.
These Accords were reached under the outstanding leadership of Chancellor
Patricia Espinosa of Mexico last December. The agreements, which enjoy nearly
universal support are a huge step for the community of nations, but
unfortunately, a small step for the planet.
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