Final Report

Meetings
The Executive Committee meetings and PASO General Assemblies held during the period
covered by this report were mainly concerned with the preparation, organisation and
running of the XIV Pan American Games in 2003, the election of the host city of the XV
Pan American Games in 2007 and preparing the American NOCs for their participation
in the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad in Athens. The annual PASO General Assemblies and
at least two Executive Committee meetings, which are also held every year, are funded
by this programme. As the financial accounts show, this budget has been kept at a reasonable
level.
2001–2004 Budget: US$ 1,140,000
Continental activities
The continental activities programme had a budget of US$ 2,510,000 for the four years.
This was used in full since PASO decided that, along with the funds generated by the
organisation itself, it should be used to finance the programme of courses and seminars
organised in America during the 2001–2004 period.
At the proposal of the Pan American Olympic Solidarity Commission, the PASO Executive
Committee approved the programme of courses and seminars for the 2002–2003 period,
deeming it to be one of the continent’s largest programmes in terms of human resources.
During the period in question, 154 continental and regional courses were organised,
involving a total of 3,115 participants. In 2004, due to the Athens Games, a smaller programme
was run, with a total of 35 activities, including five seminars and 30 high-level
technical courses. All were continental in nature and 800 technical experts took part. During
these three years, PASO organised more than 185 high-level courses and seminars and
trained around 4,000 experts from the 42 member NOCs in more than 30 sports. PASO’s
training programme was a total success.
As part of this programme, new procedures have been devised for the management and
administration of courses. From this year, host NOCs will assume greater responsibility for
the planning and running of the courses, as well as the drafting, implementation and control
of the budget. Thanks to the cooperation between the PASO coordinating office and
the course organisers, the high-quality activities planned as part of this programme were
organised very efficiently.
Continental Programmes