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.
Services provided by
the environment are of great importance to sustain life on the planet. For the
last century, humans have deteriorated the environment through economic
activities such as agricultural practices, industry and incorrect use of
technology.
Regulatory and
protected area approaches are now known to be insufficient to ensure the
conservation of biodiversity. A main problem is financial, especially for
resources that lie outside protected areas. For these to be conserved, they need
to be more valuable than the alternative uses of land. The failure of landowners
to capture financial benefits from conserving ecosystem benefits can lead to
overexploitation of natural resources and undersupply of ecosystem services, for
instance.[i]
In the past,
governments were the ones responsible of ensuring biodiversity protection of
environmental services through government: direct resource ownership and
management, regulation of private resource use, technical assistance programs to
encourage improved private management, and targeted taxes and subsidies to
modify private incentives.[ii]
Yet these traditional instruments of command and control have not been
successful enough in ensuring provision of environmental services.
There is a growing
interest in finding alternative, innovative, and market-based approaches to do
so: Payments for Environmental Services (PES). PES uses monetary incentives
instead of command and control as policy instruments. According to Pagiola
(2003), “the central principles of PES are that those who provide environmental
services should be compensated for doing so and that those who receive the
services should pay for their provision.”[iii]
References
[i]
Jenkins, M. et al. 2004. Markets for Biodiversity Services: Potential Roles and
Challenges. Environment 46, No. 6. July. Washington, D.C. p.35