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 Supports Expansion of Drug Treatment Courts in Mexico
November 20, 2013
More than 300 professionals from the justice and health sectors will gather in Mexico for the “Drug Treatment Courts Implementation Workshop” beginning this Thursday, November 21st and ending on Sunday the 24th in Toluca, State of Mexico. This initiative is supported by the Organization of American States (OAS), with the goal of exploring alternatives to incarceration for drug-dependent offenders within the Drug Treatment Court (DTC) model.
Participating in the event will be judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and treatment providers. Training will be conducted by experts from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, and Belgium, who will focus on the concepts of Therapeutic Jurisprudence and methods of implementation for DTCs.
Scientific evidence gathered from the application of this model in other countries of the hemisphere supports the idea that DTCs, when implemented correctly with a multidisciplinary approach by both judicial and health professionals, contribute to a reduction in crime, reduced relapse into drug abuse, and a reduction in prison population.
Mexico opened the first pilot DTC model in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon. Elsewhere, the model is currently in operation in Chile, the United States, Canada, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. In addition, and thanks to the support of the OAS, the model is being implemented in Argentina (Province of Salta), Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad & Tobago. Countries currently exploring the model with the OAS include Colombia, Belize, Bahamas, and Suriname.
The event will be inaugurated by Eruviel Avila Villegas, Governor of the State of Mexico; Roberto Campa Cifran, Undersecretary of Prevention and Citizen Participation of the Mexican Government; Fernando Cano Valle, member of the National Drug Commission of Mexico (CONADIC) of the Ministry of Health; Ambassador Paul Simons of the OAS (CICAD/OAS); and Maria de los Angeles Fromow Rangel, Technical Secretary, Coordinating Board of the Criminal Justice System, Secretary of Governance of Mexico.
This activity is organized by the Government of Mexico through the Secretary of Governance and the Nation Drug Commission of the Ministry of Health, the Government of the State of Mexico, through the state Ministry of Health, and CICAD. This event was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Government of the United States of America.
For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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