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.
The Inter-American Network for the Prevention of Violence and Crime was created as a permanent mechanism for dialogue and consultation among a multiplicity of actors involved in the design, implementation and evaluation of public policies on crime and violence prevention.
Within the MISPA framework, the Hemispheric Plan of Action was adopted to guide the Development of Public Policies for the Prevention and Reduction of Intentional Homicide
Why is MISPA VII important?
The two-day event will be divided into panel discussions where the authorities will present perspectives and comments on:
Public policies and regional strategies to prevent and combat transnational crime that undermines public security;
Police cooperation and strengthening criminal intelligence in the fight against transnational organized crime; and
Regional experiences and principal discussions around measuring public security indicators on transnational organized crime.
It is expected that recommendations for the development of concrete actions on public security will be adopted, and that the creation of the Hemispheric Strategy to prevent and combat transnational organized crime in the framework of the Hemispheric Plan of Action against Transnational Organized Crime will be approved.
MISPA II, which took place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (2009), adopted the Consensus of Santo Domingo on Public Security, which institutionalized the MISPA process with a Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Public Security in the Americas every two years.
In 2011, in Trinidad and Tobago, MISPA III took as reference one of the pillars of the Commitment to Public Security in the Americas and adopted the document Port-of-Spain Recommendations for Police Management
MISPA IV, held in Medellín, Colombia, in 2013, emphasized on International Cooperation in Public Security, highlighting the strengthening of cooperation, coordination and mutual technical assistance actions among the institutions responsible for public security in the member states of the OAS and judicial cooperation that allows states to give an effective legal response to the commission, execution, planning, preparation or financing of criminal acts that threaten public security.
MISPA V, held in Lima, Peru in 2015, concluded with the adoption of the Lima Recommendations for the Prevention of Crime, Violence and Insecurity; and presented the Program of the Inter-American Network for Police Development and Professionalization with the objective of contributing to the consolidation of the professional development of police institutions in the member states by associating public policy with a tangible program with concrete results for police forces.
In 2017, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, MISPA VI was held. The Subsidiary Technical Group for the Prevention of Crime, Violence and Insecurity met for the first time and created two working groups to articulate mechanisms and tools for cooperation of emergency services and for the creation of an action plan for the prevention of lethal violence in the Americas.
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