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Series
Overseas Development Administration and successors: Disaster and Refugee Units and...
Catalogue reference: OD 142
What's it about?
OD 142
This series contains records dealing with disaster preparedness and relief - in particular, liaison with the Ministry of Defence, other UK Government Departments and International Organisations on emergency relief and other humanitarian disaster issues.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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OD 142
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Title (The name of the record)
- Overseas Development Administration and successors: Disaster and Refugee Units and successors: Registered Files (OMA, OMB and EM Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1987-1995
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records dealing with disaster preparedness and relief - in particular, liaison with the Ministry of Defence, other UK Government Departments and International Organisations on emergency relief and other humanitarian disaster issues.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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These files are arranged in file reference order.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Files created prior to 1987 can be located within series OD 69
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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OMA, OMB, EMA, EMB, EMC, EMD, EME, EMF, EMG, EMH, EMI, EMJ, EMK, EMW
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department for International Development, 1997-1997
- Overseas Development Administration, 1979-1997
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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46 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2020 Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
From 2017 Department for International Development
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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The paper file series started in 1987 and ended in 2006.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The OMA and OMB file prefixes were first used in 1987/88 and allocated to the Units dealing with humanitarian disaster and emergency aid. At the start of the 1992/94 file period the Units were allocated the EM prefixes.
The creating departments within the Overseas Manpower Division for these files are defined as follows:
Overseas Development Administration (ODA):
1987 to 1991 Overseas Manpower Division: Disaster and Refugee Units; 1992 to 1993 Establishment Division: Disaster and Refugee Units;1994 to 1997 Personnel and Organisation Division: Emergency Aid Department.
Department for International Development (DFID):
1998 to 2006 Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs Department.
From 2001 the remit of the Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs Department was extended to cover such issues as global conflict prevention, security sector reform, de-mining and mine clearance, arms and export licences
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14676158/
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