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.
INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS AND AUTHORITIES WILL MEET IN PANAMA TO DISCUSS DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT
March 5, 2009
On March 17th 2009, high-level authorities from the Inter-American and UN Systems will discuss in Panama ways to further advance the agenda of Disaster Risk Reduction and Development. This 1st Session of the Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas is being co-organized by the Organization of American States (OAS), and the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) with the financial support of the Government of Canada.
Ambassador Albert Ramdin, OAS Assistant Secretary General, will deliver the keynote speech in which he will promote advancing disaster risk reduction as an integral component of development policy and planning. The OAS has been at the vanguard of disaster risk reduction, with its 34 member States having understood for two decades that disaster reduction is not an issue of a few, but of all sectors and levels of government, as well as the civil society as a whole.
On February 10th, 2009, at a workshop convened by Ambassador Ramdin at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC, he highlighted the OAS leading role, by explaining that “the Inter-American Strategic Plan for Policy on Vulnerability Reduction, Risk Management and Disaster Response (IASP), adopted in 2003, epitomizes the political will to prevent, and mitigate the consequences and implications of natural phenomena.”
This First Session of the Regional Platform is taking place almost two years after the First Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction and just months before its second session. The Regional Platform of the Americas is expected to become the main regional forum for all parties involved in disaster risk reduction, including regional inter-governmental bodies, civil society, United Nations specialized agencies, international financial institutions, the private sector, and the scientific and academic communities.
More than 200 participants, including government officials, scientists, academics, representatives of multilateral organizations, and members of civil society organized groups are expected to attend this first Session.
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