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.
IMPLEMENTING HEMISPHERIC CONVENTION OUTLAWING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN THE FOCUS OF UPCOMING OAS SEMINAR
August 4, 2008
An Organization of American States OAS seminar scheduled for August 13 will highlight “Strategies to Monitor Implementation of Recommendations of the Committee of Government Experts,” related to the Mechanism to Follow Up on Implementation of the Inter-American Convention to Prevent, Punish and Eradicate Violence against Women MESECVI, also known as the Convention of Belém do Pará.
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza will deliver welcoming remarks at the opening session, which will be held at the Padilha Vidal Room (1889 F Street, N.W., Washington, DC). Other speakers include Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights IACHR Santiago Cantón, and Coordinator of the Committee of Experts, Susana Chiarotti, will deliver the Hemispheric Report.
The seminar includes three panels, covering legal framework: legislation and national plans; national budgets, information and statistics; and access to justice.
The Convention of Belém do Pará was adopted on June 9, 1994, while the statutes of the Mechanism to Follow Up on Implementation of the Convention were adopted by the First Conference of States Parties to the Convention on October 26, 2004. The mechanism comprises two organs: the Conference of States Parties, its policy-making body; and the Committee of Experts (CEVI), the technical organ comprised of experts appointed by the states parties, the experts acting in their personal capacity. States parties also appoint Competent National Authorities that function as a liaison between the Secretariat and the governments.
Each Committee of Experts multilateral evaluation round adopts a questionnaire on the provisions of the Convention, the implementation of which it will consider and forward to the Competent National Authorities for response. Based on those replies, and based also on information that it gathers, the Committee then issues country reports as well as a Hemispheric Report and makes recommendations for follow-up action.
The first CEVI Hemispheric Report produced by the evaluation phase of the round that started in 2005 and concluded two years later, was presented during the Second Conference of States Parties, held in Caracas, Venezuela, this past July 9 and 10.
Preparation of that report involved computerizing information provided by 28 countries of the region in response to a questionnaire on the priority area of legislation and national plans; access to justice; national budget and information and statistics. What remains to be done now is to ensure that CEVI recommendations are implemented. Meanwhile, the upcoming seminar, which is expected to bring together experts in the questionnaire subject areas, is also expected to consider the recommendations and suggestions received as the basis on which strategies will be developed to facilitate follow-up.