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.
OAS Launches Project for Biofuels Development in Jamaica
May 19, 2010
The Organization of American States (OAS), through its Department of Sustainable Development, today launched in Jamaica a project that supports the development and implementation of biofuels policies and programs in the Caribbean country.
The initiative—Technical Assistance for Biofuels Development and Policy Support in Jamaica—seeks to establish a strong legal and regulatory framework for a vibrant liquid biofuels industry, facilitate the sharing of perspectives among the respective stakeholders and advise on appropriate technologies.
"The OAS is committed to supporting Jamaica in the articulation of a sustainable bioenergetic policy,” said Francisco Burgos, OAS Specialist on Energy and Sustainable Development. “In this sense, the initiative we launched today seeks to strengthen the country’s experience in the production of biofuels, placing special emphasis on the social, economic and environmental aspects that said industry demands.”
The OAS is a partner organization in the U.S.-Brazil Bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Biofuels Cooperation. Currently, this regional organization helps to implement partnership activities in the third-party countries that are beneficiaries of the said agreement, including Jamaica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras and St. Kitts and Nevis.
The OAS also supports other sustainable energy activities in the Caribbean, such as the Caribbean Sustainable Energy Program (CSEP) for the development of national energy policies and implementation measures (in Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines), and the Eastern Caribbean Geothermal Project (Geo-Caraïbes), which supports assessment and market conditioning for the development of geothermal power in Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, and St. Lucia.
The project’s launching was held today in the Banquet Hall of the Office of the Jamaican Prime Minister at Jamaica House, Kingston, with the participation of Francisco Burgos; James Robertson, Jamaica’s Minister of Energy and Mining; and Hillary Alexander, Permanent Secretary in Jamaica’s Ministry of Energy and Mining.
Para más información, visite la Web de la OEA en www.oas.org