Average cost per meeting Support staff*InterpretationTranslation** Documents (reproduction and transcription) Overtime*** (interpreters and staff)Other costsTotal 3 hour meeting (4 lang) $ 1,519 $ 4,400 $ 2,565 $ 370N/A $ 488 $ 9,292 6 hour meeting (4 lang) $ 1,519 $ 4,400 $ 2,565 $ 370 $ 2,240 $ 488 $ 11,532 3 hour meeting (2 lang) $ 1,519 $ 2,200 $ 2,565 $ 370 N/A $ 488 $ 7,092 6 hour meeting (2 lang) $ 1,519 $ 2,200 $ 2,565 $ 370 $ 1,140 $ 488 $ 8,232 Shared meeting**** 3 hour meeting (4 lang) $ 1,519 $ 2,200 $ 2,565 $ 370N/A $ 488 $ 7,092 Non-shared meeting 6 hour meeting (4 lang) $ 1,519 $ 4,400 $ 2,565$ 370 $ 2,240 $ 488 $ 11,532 6 hour meeting (2 lang) $ 1,519 $ 2,200 $ 2,565$ 370 $ 1,140 $ 488 $ 8,232 *Support staff only includes net average salaries, does not include any benefits. **Translation costs refers to an average price of a 10 pages document into 3 languages. ***Overtime for interpreters starts after 6.5 hours of meeting with a break. **** A shared meeting means that the same team of interpreters is shared by two different meetings. Other costs are variable and include general services, coffee, maintenance for the equipment and Webcast. Any meeting after 6pm incurs additional expenses beyond the staff overtime as: electricity, cleaning services, and security personnel.

Costs of conferences and meetings of 2014 Meetings of the Permanent Council and its Committees Initial Budget 2014 Actual Expenditure 2014 Number of Meetings 2014Variance PERMANENT COUNCIL$169,500$490,791104$321,291 PREPARATORY COMMITTEE$72,700$102,6592$29,959 GENERAL COMMITTEE$72,700$56,30014-$16,400 CAJP$145,300$158,35741$13,057 CSH$145,300$158,76747$13,467 CAAP$116,200$115,52065-$680 SPECIAL GA$48,400$31,9092-$16,491 CISC$72,600$33,2109-$39,390 GENERAL ASSEMBLY$162,000$151,46042-$10,540 CIDI$116,200$123,57156$7,371 TOTALS$1,120,900$1,422,544382$301,644 The cost of CPRs for technicians, room assistants, translators and interpreter coordinator are not included in this table. For 2014 those costs were: $450,894.

Meetings with quorum January – June 2014 – Note: Some working groups meetings are held without interpretation to reduce costs Meetings held Meetings with quorum to make decisions Regular Permanent Council 22 Special Sessions of the Permanent Council 22 Protocolary 4 CP/CIDI Joint Working Group on the Social Charter of the Americas 108 General Committee 77 Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Affairs 96 Sub-Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Affairs 65 Working Group on the Review of OAS Programs 30 Working Group on the Technical Review of the OAS Program-Budget 32 Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs 1510 Working Group on Protection of the Human Rights of Older Persons (regular) 31 Working Group on Protection of the Human Rights of Older Persons (2-day and 3-day meetings) 63 Informal Working Group on the Classification of the Mandates of the Committee of Juridical and Political Affairs 40 Committee on Hemisferic Security 1716 Informal Group to consider the provisions of paragraph 11 of resolution AG/RES (XLIII- O/13) 10 Inter-American Council for Integral Development 11 Inter-American Council for Integral Development (special session) 11 Committee on Partnerships for Development Policies 109 Committee on Migration Issues 21 Working Group to Strengthen CIDI and its organs 54 Ad hoc CIDI Working Group to review mandates on integral development 11 Management Board of the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development (9 members. Quorum - 5 members) 33