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.
The CIM, in collaboration with the CICAD and in the context of the 43rd session of the OAS General Assembly, organized a side-event on the gender and human rights dimensions of the world of illicit drugs in the Americas.
CIM, in collaboration with the IACHR, the IIHR and OHCHR and as part of the OAS General Assembly, organized a side event on the human rights dimensions of security policy:
The lack of citizen security constitutes one of the principal threats to stability, democratic governance, and sustainable human development. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the murder rate is double the worldwide average, and in some areas it is five times as high. A region that is home to just 8% of the world's population accounts for 42% of the homicides and 66% of the kidnappings worldwide.
Although citizen insecurity is a problem that affects the entire population, women experience violence, dispossession, trafficking, and other security problems differently than men (UNDP, 2006) — a difference that results mainly from the construction of gendered social roles. As a UNDP Costa Rica report (2006) states, "This is not about a simple quantitative difference, for example, in the number of homicides of men and women, or in who commits them."
However, as Rainero (2006) states, "...it is possible to note that not only public debates about the lack of safety in cities, but also public policies and actions that aim to fight this problem, are based on indicators that reduce violence to criminal typologies that generally exclude violence against women."
The failure to consider the security needs of women, on the one hand, and their absence in the spaces for decision-making and action regarding citizen security, on the other, means that the security policies of the majority of countries in the region ignore more than 50% of the population of these countries. This means in practice that women are less able, and less likely, to approach security-sector bodies about the violence they are suffering.
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