Schedule of meetings to review
the program-budget for 2017
September - October 2016
Draft methodology
Presentation of the Secretary General on the 2017 Program Budget
“This budget represents a change for the OAS because it breaks the longstanding habit of formulating a
budget based largely on inertia and instead is shaped by the member states’ priorities and the programmatic
needs of the General Secretariat...
The advances made in the course of that exercise were taken into account to produce a Program-Budget that
represents a huge step toward strengthening the Organization and toward the results-oriented management
we are aiming for.”
Draft Methodology
Review of the 2017 Program-Budget in two phases:
• First: Analysis of the programmatic structure proposed in Appendix III “2017 ProgramBudget”.
4 meetings
o Analysis by pillar
o Presentations by the Secretaries and/or persons responsible for the budget chapters
for each of the pillars
o Examination of:
 Goals (priority and type)
 Programs (activities)
• Second: Analysis of the budget appropriation, by:
Maximum
of 5
meetings
o
o
o
o
Program
Type of expenditure
Item of expenditure
Regular Fund and ICR
Draft Methodology
• Matching: Any proposed increase in a program’s funding must include a corresponding
proposal as to where the matching cut would be made.
• Program-centric approach: Avoid negotiating on positions and focus discussions on programs
and their priorities
• Prioritize proposed changes: Changes should be concentrated according to their importance
(mandates, priorities, installed capacity, etc.)
“The Organization of American States is the hemispheric political forum inclusive of all the
countries of the Americas, committed to the strengthening of democracy, the promotion and
protection of human rights, the advancement of integral development and the fostering of
multidimensional security, all equal and interdependent, with justice and social inclusion, for the
benefit of the peoples of the Americas.”
Office of the
Ombudsperson
Institution
Building
Democracy
Human Rights
Integral
development
Multidimensional
Security
Secretariat for
Hemispheric Affairs
Secretariat for
Legal Affairs
Office of the Strategic
Counsel for O. D. and
Management for
Results
Administrative
Management
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corr. 1
Secretariat for
Administration and
Finance
Secretariat for
Strengthening of
Democracy
Secretariat for Access
to Rights and Equity
Executive
Secretariat for
Integral
Development
Secretariat for
Multidimensional
Security
Distribution of program-budget chapters in the Strategic Vision (SV) pillars
PILAR
CHAPTER
Democracy
6
Secretariat for Strengthening Democracy
3,368.8
4.6%
Human rights
5
3
3
3
Secretariat for Access to Rights and Equity
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Inter-American Commission of women
1,731.5
2,756.2
5,643.0
1,370.5
2.4%
3.8%
7.8%
1.9%
Integral development
7
3
3
3
3
Executive Secretariat for Integral Development
Inter-American Children’s Institute
Pan American Development Foundation
Inter-American Telecommunications Commission
Trust for the Americas
5,964.3
713.0
72.5
392.1
194.5
8.2%
1.0%
0.1%
0.5%
0.3%
Multidimensional security
8
3
Secretariat for Multidimensional Security
Inter- American Defense Board
3,332.8
862.4
4.6%
1.2%
Institutional strengthening
1
2
3
4
9
10
13
Office of the Secretary General
Office of the Assistant Secretary General
Inter-American Juridical Committee
Strategic Counsel
Secretariat for Hemispheric Affairs
Secretariat for Legal Affairs
Supervisory Bodies
2,571.3
11,535.9
208.7
2,713.4
2,492.6
3,359.7
1,072.1
3.5%
15.9%
0.3%
3.7%
3.4%
4.6%
1.5%
Administrative sections
Secretariat for Administration and Finance
Infrastructure and common costs
796.9
8,376.2
12,971.5
1.1%
11.6%
17.9%
72,499.9
100.0%
Administrative management
TOTAL
7,8,10
11
12
PROGRAM
AMOUNT
%
Schedule of meetings to review the program-budget for 2017
SEPTIEMBER
ITEM
1ST meeting of the Working Group (WG)
2nd meeting- Democracy and Human
Rights pillars
3rd meetings – Integral Development pillar
4th meeting – Multidimensional Security pillar
5th meeting – Institution Building and
Administrative Management
Working Meetings – Review of the proposed
Program-budget
M T
5
6
W
7
T
8
F
9
M T
12 13
W
14
T
15
F
16
M T
19 20
OCTUBER
W
21
T
22
F
23
M T
26 27
W
28
T
29
F
30
M T
3
4
W
5
T
6
F
7
M T
10 11
W
12
T
13
F
14
M T
17 18
W
19
T
20
F
21
M T
24 25
W
26
T
27
F
28
M
31