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Screening of General Assembly Mandates

Screening of General Assembly Mandates. As mandated by the Permanent Council CP/doc.4687/12 rev.2. Background.

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Screening of General Assembly Mandates

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  1. Screening of General Assembly Mandates As mandated by the Permanent Council CP/doc.4687/12 rev.2

  2. Background

  3. In September 2008, the OAS General Assembly reiterated the mandates adopted at its thirty-eighth regular session by resolution AG/RES. 2437 (XXXVIII-O/08) regarding the process of preparing the program-budget and, at the same time, ordered an in-depth examination of all the Organization’s revenue and expenditure in the context of its current mandates in order to establish priorities and optimize the use of funds for future program-budgets, within the capacity of the member states to finance them. The first inventory of mandates (CP/CAAP-2968/08) was presented in 2008; however, its scope was too limited as it only identified the 537 mandates issued by the General Assembly session in Panama. The report on that inventory (CP/CAAP-2977/08 add. 1 corr. 1) defined what constitutes a mandate, and the first situation review of the Organization’s mandates was prepared. The first list of mandates arranged by pillar and subpillar (CP/CAAP-3030/09 rev. 1) was presented toward the end of 2009; it identified more than 1,700 mandates from 1935 to 2008.

  4. In 2010 and 2011 a number of mandate reviews were conducted using different schemes (active and inactive mandates, mandates classified by costing and with no funding assigned, and mandates by pillar, by subpillar and by set of mandates). The above reflects the complexity of the mandate issue at the OAS. Near the end of 2011, the Working Group on the Review of OAS Programs established an informal working group to analyze the mandates from a different perspective and design a scheme for screening them. In the Draft Procedure and Schedule of the Strategic Vision of the OAS, the Permanent Council instructed the Working Group to finalize the scheme for screening the mandates issued by the General Assembly over the past five years, with a view to consolidating all current mandates in a single document. This report (CP/CAAP-3175/12) and its addendums contain an analysis of the mandates based on the scheme used by the Working Group on the Review of OAS Programs, which were approved by the CAAP in accordance with the mandate of the Permanent Council.

  5. Inventory of Mandates

  6. Mandates Recorded 1935-2011 2007-2011 1,445 2,370 328 2007 1935-2006 326 925 2008 255 2009 259 2010 277 2011

  7. Mandates 2007–2011 1,445 General Assembly mandates Mandates from other legal instruments 1,349 96 Inter-American Programs Plans of Action Communiqués of Meetings of Ministers and High Authorities Work Plans

  8. Method

  9. Expired a) Mandates with expired deadlines for implementation b) Mandates with currency solely during the budgetary cycle, under Art. 83 of the General Standards c) Mandates created for an event that has concluded

  10. d) Mandates corresponding to observations and recommendations on the annual reports of autonomous and decentralized organs, such as the: • Inter-American Commission on Human Rights • Inter-American Court of Human Rights • Inter-American Juridical Committee

  11. Duplicates Mandates whose text repeats identically over several years

  12. Procedure Mandates whose actions for implementation have been as incorporated as working or reporting methods in areas of the General Secretariat.

  13. Not mandates Do not entail actions to be carried out by the Secretary General and do not meet the terms of document CP/CAAP-2977/8 add. 1 defining a mandate “as a request for action by the OAS General Secretariat, which originates in a resolution of the General Assembly.”

  14. Democracy and Governance CAJP Human Rights CSH Multidimensional Security CIDI Integral Development Policy Direction CAAP Support to member states CEAM Administration SUMMITS Infrastructure and Common Costs Organizational Pillars Permanent Council Committees

  15. Result

  16. 1,349 mandates Expired Duplicates Not Mandates Procedure Current

  17. 649 mandates

  18. MANDATES COMMITTEE CAJP CSH CIDI CAAP CEAM SUMMITS TOTAL Current 207 190 139 72 21 20 649 Expired 126 48 53 228 2 8 465 Duplicates 126 38 20 2 39 225 Not mandates 3 1 1 5 Procedure 3 1 1 5 TOTAL 465 277 214 302 23 68 1,349 Distribution of mandates by Permanent Council committee

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