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.
Follow-up Mechanism to the Belém do Pará Convention (MESECVI)
The goal of the MESECVI is to analyze progress in the implementation of the Convention by its States Party, as well as persistent challenges to an effective response to violence against women.
International Models Project on Women's Rights (IMPOWR)
CIM is one of the partners on the IMPOWR project, an innovative initiative to establish a global collaborative research database on women's rights under law that will support the worldwide implementation of the principles underlying CEDAW and the Belém do Pará Convention.
Since its creation in 1928, the CIM has played a leading role in protecting the human rights of women in the Americas. The concrete results of this role include the adoption of Inter-American Conventions on the Nationality of Women, the Civil Rights of Women, and the Political Rights of Women, as well as the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women (Belém do Pará Convention). These binding legal frameworks have been fundamental instruments for the recognition of women as subjects of human rights and active agents of democracy and development.
The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have gradually adapted their national laws and policies to the universal and inter-American legal framework on women's rights.
In spite of this progress, a number of obstacles remain to women's full realization of their human rights - from women's ability to access education, employment with equal pay and benefits, and health and other social services, to women’s ability to negotiate sexual relations, reproduction and to protect themselves from violence, including in their own homes, and to influence decision-making processes in the political, economic and social spheres.
In this context, the CIM has focused on the following key lines of action:
Leading participatory and inclusive dialogue on policies to support women’s rights
Strengthening capacity for integrated monitoring of the exercise of women’s rights,
Supporting the full implementation of the Belém do Pará Convention in inter-American jurisprudence and strengthening its monitring at the national level
Promoting an inter-cultural approach to women's rights within a context of democratic governance/.