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.
SWEDEN CONTRIBUTES $800,000 FOR HUMANITARIAN DEMINING
AND SUPPORT FOR LANDMINE VICTIMS IN NICARAGUA
July 27, 2006
The Organization of American States (OAS) received a contribution of some $800,000 from Sweden to continue anti-landmine efforts in Nicaragua and to support, among other projects, an OAS-coordinated rehabilitation and social reintegration program for victims and an educational prevention campaign called “Safe Step without Mines.”
The contribution was made through the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), based on a cooperation agreement signed between Sweden and the OAS in September 2002. The humanitarian operations will continue to be coordinated through the OAS Mine Action Program.
Thanks in large part to the Swedish government’s financial support, the operations included in the Nicaraguan National Demining Plan have advanced by about 90%. In 1990, more than 550,000 people in the country lived within five kilometers of an area with landmines; as of this year, that number has been reduced to under 45,000.
Since 1996, Sweden has supported the OAS humanitarian demining program in Nicaragua by funding one of the main landmine-removal units in the country. This unit, located in Nueva Segovia province, is made up of 100 sappers – soldiers from the Nicaraguan Army Core of Engineers – with technical assistance provided by the Inter-American Defense Board (IADB).
The program has helped more than 800 landmine victims. Of these, 200 have received vocational training with the support of Nicaragua’s National Technological Institute. These activities are also coordinated through the OAS Mine Action Program.
With the financial support of countries such as Sweden, the United States, Canada, Norway and Italy, the OAS rehabilitation and social reintegration program is considering an expansion to assist landmine victims not only in Nicaragua but also in Honduras.
The program recently helped three Nicaraguan children who had lost their sight as a result of landmine accidents. The children received medical care in their own country and completed the physical rehabilitation process in Costa Rica.