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.
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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.
To the extent that women occupy more space in the different areas of the political sphere - from presidencies, parliaments, courts and public enterprise, to municipal governments - we have also seen an increase in the multiple manifestations of discrimination and violence that seek to silence and limit women's political leadership and the fundamental change that they represent to the distribution and exercise of power.
In recognition of this new reality and the need to stretch our definitions and legal instruments in order to respond in the most effective way, in 2015 CIM opened a new area of work to advance the prevention, care and punishment of violence and harassment of women in politics.
Results:
Model Protocol for Political Parties: Preventing, Addressing, Punishing and Eradicating Violence against Women in Political Life
Studies indicate that although women's participation in political parties
has expanded, women continue to be poorly represented in leadership
positions and multiple gender-related barriers persist that limit their
trajectories in these spaces. Furthermore, since the issue of violence
against women in politics was incorporated into the agenda of national and
international organizations, the research carried out and the testimonies of
women have shown that this violence occurs largely within political parties.
This Protocol seeks to support the party leaderships that direct the
modernization of these spaces, as well as the party members that demand it.
Inter-American Model Law on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women in Political Life
Within the context of its work, the MESECVI has recognized the progress of States in the prevention and punishment of violence against women in the private sphere, however, it has also repeatedly emphasized that "these actions do not cover all manifestations of violence against women, especially those produced in the public sphere," and has affirmed the need to make progress in legislation that puishes violence against women perpetrated in the public sphere. This Model Law is a contribution to closing this gap, in response to the growing concern of the Mechanism over violence against women perpetrated in political spaces.
Declaration on Political Harassment and Violence Against Women
In October 2015, the Conference of States Party to the Belém do Pará Convention adopted this Declaration with a view to highlighting the multiple manifestations of harassment and violence faced by women in the political sphere and to foster actions to prevent, respond to and punish these crimes.
Round-table and Expert Group: Violence against Women in Politicss (February 25th 2015, Washington, DC)
CIM organized these two events with a view to highlighting the problem of harassment and violence against women in politics and identifying legislative and policy reforms, and concrete actions to foster the prevention, response to and punishment of these crimes.