AG/RES. 1460 (XXVII-O/97)
FELLOWSHIP AND TRAINING PROGRAMS
(Resolution adopted at the sixth plenary session, held on June 4, 1997)
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
HAVING SEEN the Report of the Permanent Council on the Fellowship and Training Programs
(AG/doc.3487/97);
BEARING IN MIND resolutions AG/RES. 1277 (XXIV-O/94), AG/RES. 1317 (XXV-O/95), and
AG/RES. 1381(XXVI-O/96);
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the report of the General Secretariat entitled "OAS Fellowship
Programs for the Development of Human Resources in the American States"
(CP/doc.2753/96);
REAFFIRMING that member states assign high priority to the human resource training
activities carried out through the OAS Fellowship and Training Programs;
CONSIDERING:
That, at its meeting of July 11, 1996, the Permanent Council established a working
group to study all aspects of the Fellowship and Training Programs, including mechanisms
for improving their financial administration and possible sources of external funding;
That the objective of the OAS Fellowship and Training Programs is to support human
resource development in member states; and
That the programs should therefore be guided by the development objectives and
priorities of the Organization adopted in the strategic plan of the Inter-American Council
for Integral Development (CIDI); and
TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the recommendations of the Meeting of the Working Group to Study
the Fellowship and Training Programs with Authorities Responsible for Training and
Fellowships, which was held on April 28 and 29, 1997 (GT/BECAP-28/97 rev. 2),
RESOLVES:
- To adopt the report of the Permanent Council on the Fellowship and Training Programs,
which includes the recommendations contained in the final report of the Meeting of the
Working Group to Study the Fellowship and Training Programs with Authorities Responsible
for Training and Fellowships.
- To urge member states to implement, as soon as possible and where appropriate, the
recommendations contained in that final report.
- To instruct the Permanent Council, through its Working Group to Study the Fellowship
and Training Programs, to prepare and adopt by November 1997 a manual of flexible and
transparent general procedures, on the basis of the recommendations contained in the final
report.
- To instruct the General Secretariat to prepare a work plan for implementing the
recommendations contained in the final report to be submitted to the Permanent Council in
September 1997, with a view to implementing it in the course of the 1998 selection
process, within allocated resources approved in the program-budget and other resources.
- To instruct the General Secretariat to see to it that, in the interest of better
communication and optimum transparency, all communications concerning fellowships are
transmitted through the official channels established by each member state.
- To instruct the General Secretariat to set up a capital fund as one of the mechanisms
for financing the Fellowship and Training Programs of the Organization and in so doing to
use a portion of the resources approved for the said programs.
- To request the Permanent Council to examine and approve, through its Committee on
Administrative and Budgetary Affairs, the proposals for financing the Capital Fund.
- To invite the member states and permanent observers to make voluntary contributions to
the Capital Fund, and to promote private-sector donations.
- To request the Inter-American Council for Integral Development, through its Permanent
Executive Committee, to look into the possibility of strengthening cooperation between
post-secondary educational institutions across the Hemisphere.
- To request the Permanent Council to submit to the General Assembly at its twenty-
eighth regular session a report on the implementation of this resolution.
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