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.
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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.
IACHR ANNOUNCES PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR ITS 129TH SPECIAL SESSIONS
August 29, 2007
Washington, D.C., August 29, 2007 — At the invitation of the government of Paraguay, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will hold its 129th special period of sessions in Asunción from September 5 to 7, 2007. The following public hearings will take place September 6 in the Convention Hall of the Granados Park Hotel, located on the corner of Estrella and 15 de Agosto streets. Audio recordings of the hearings will be made available to the press and the general public on the IACHR Web site (www.iachr.org).
Time Issue Petitioners
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Human rights of migrant workers, refugees and displaced persons in the Americas Inter-American Control Observatory of Migrations
10:15 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. The right to water; indigenous peoples in the Andean Region Observatory of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Follow-up to Report 29/92 (Law of Expiration of the Punitive Power of the State), Uruguay IELSUR
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Presentation of a report by Diego Portales University on human rights in Chile Program for Public-Interest Actions and Human Rights, Diego Portales University
Members of the press do not need prior accreditation to cover the public hearings. Journalists will be allowed to enter and to use recording devices and laptop computers as long as these do not disrupt the normal hearing process. Photographers and cameramen and women will also be allowed to enter, but will be authorized to film and shoot photos only during the first five minutes of the hearing. Once the hearing has begun, no photographers or cameramen will be allowed to enter. Members of the press and the general public will be asked to turn off all cellular phones when they enter the room.
In addition, the IACHR will participate in several activities in Asunción designed to promote the inter-American human rights system. On September 5, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m., the IACHR President, Commissioner Florentín Meléndez, will be the keynote speaker at a conference on the inter-American system at the National University of Asunción School of Law. At that same time, the First Vice President of the IACHR, Commissioner Paolo Carozza, will give an address on the same topic at a conference at the Catholic University School of Law. During their visit, the Commissioners will also meet with high-level authorities of Paraguay’s executive, legislative and judicial branches, as well as with representatives of indigenous peoples and civil society organizations.
For questions or to request interviews, please contact María Isabel Rivero, director of the IACHR Press and Outreach Office: (202) 458-3867 (office in Washington) or (202) 215-4142 (cell: this number will also work in Paraguay), or by e-mail ([email protected]).