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.
OAS Goodwill Ambassadors on Environmental Justice
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The Organization of American States (OAS) presented an initiative to strengthen the role of the judiciary in the protection of the environment, which included the designation of four representatives of the Supreme Courts of the region as Goodwill Ambassadors for Environmental Justice in the Americas.
The initiative led by the OAS is called "Caring for our Common Home from the Judiciary: Guaranteeing More Rights for More People in the Americas." In addition to the designations announced today, the project includes the training of judges in environmental material, the development of an operating model for the judiciary, and developing a portal on environmental rule of law in the Americas.
The designated judges are:
It took the population of the Matanza-Riachuelo region, in Argentina, over 200 years to have its right to live in a healthy and clean environment validated. Slaughterhouses, salteries, refrigerated warehouses, tanneries, and petrochemical plants located nearby caused the pollution to rise making it practically impossible to breathe on its banks, which lacked sewage and waste collection systems.
In the mid-1800s, health authorities had already noted that there was no organic life in the Riachuelo’s waters, which gave an indication on the high levels of pollution at that time. In 2004, the river basin’s issue was brought to the courts on the initiative of a small group of La Villa’s residents who filed a lawsuit demanding environmental sanitation.
In July 2008, the National Supreme Court of Justice issued a ruling that condemned for damages and prejudices the national State, the province, the city of Buenos Aires, as well as 44 surrounding businesses for dumpling directly into the river their hazardous waste ...
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