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 AND EUROPEAN COMMISSION JOIN FORCES TO ADDRESS CONSEQUENCES OF DRUG DEPENDENCY
February 20, 2007
The Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Commission are launching an initiative to pair up cities from Europe with counterparts in Latin America and the Caribbean, forming partnerships to improve the treatment and rehabilitation of problematic drug users, and address other aspects of drug dependency at the municipal level. The European Commission is underwriting the program with a grant of 1.4 million euros (US$1.8 million) over three years.
Coordinated by the OAS Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (known by its Spanish acronym, CICAD), the initiative will bring together mayors, local chief medical officers, drug treatment personnel and family court judges from paired cities in a sustained program of exchanges designed to share best practices, establish long-term partnerships and develop new approaches to improve drug treatment and rehabilitation.
The program will offer opportunities for cities to look at alternatives to incarceration—such as community-service options and special drug courts—for petty offenders who are drug-dependent. It will also include outreach efforts to help bring current drug users into contact with available health services.
“In an age of globalization, no part of the planet is immune to substance abuse and drug addiction, and no one region has all of the answers to this very complex problem,” said James F. Mack, CICAD Executive Secretary. “Through this program, we will establish partnerships that will help us share ideas and experiences that have been shown to be effective in tackling these difficult problems.”
The European Commission and CICAD have recognized that cities across both regions—in 34 OAS member states and the 27 countries of the European Union—have much to learn from each other, Mack added.