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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.
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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 Member States to Discuss New Drug Trends and Future Regional Actions at CICAD Meeting
November 17, 2014
The member states of the Organization of Americans States (OAS) will participate in the 56th regular session of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), from November 19-21 in Guatemala City, Guatemala, where they will discuss new, current, and emerging trends in drugs.
CICAD will follow up on the Guatemala Resolution approved at the OAS Extraordinary General Assembly on September 19, 2014, in Guatemala City. This document, which was a follow up to the Antigua Declaration, approved at the Regular Meeting of the OAS General Assembly in 2013, specifically tasks drug commissioners with moving forward on a public health approach to the drug problem, alternatives to incarceration for drug related offenses, greater international cooperation on money laundering and asset forfeiture, and the development of a new hemispheric plan of action on drugs for the period 2016-2020.
The delegations from OAS member states will also discuss perspectives on regulated markets and marijuana for medicinal use; maritime narcotrafficking; approval of the 34 national reports of the Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism (MEM); and other current issues facing the countries in the region.
The meeting will include the participation of other organizations and strategic partners, such as the Pan-American Health Organization, and representatives of civil society and OAS Permanent Observer countries.
Moreover, for the third consecutive year, the CICAD meeting will be preceded by the Meeting of Civil Society which will analyze "New Approaches to Drug Law Enforcement and Responses to Organized Crime.” This event will take place on Tuesday, November 18 at the Hotel Vista Real in Guatemala City.
The CICAD meeting will be chaired by Hector Lopez Bonilla, Minister of the Interior of Guatemala.
WHAT: 56th regular session of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD)
WHEN: November 19 to 21, 2014
WHERE: Hotel Vista Real
Km. 9 Carretera a El Salvador
Ciudad de Guatemala
Guatemala
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