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Series
Overseas Development Administration: Eastern and Western Africa Department: Registered...
Catalogue reference: OD 53
What's it about?
OD 53
The records in this registered file series of the Eastern and Western Africa Department concern the provision and management of development aid to Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mauritius, the Seychelles, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- OD 53
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Title (The name of the record)
- Overseas Development Administration: Eastern and Western Africa Department: Registered Files (EWA Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1981-1986
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records in this registered file series of the Eastern and Western Africa Department concern the provision and management of development aid to Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mauritius, the Seychelles, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Benin, Togo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Central African Republic, the Gambia, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, Chad, the Ivory Coast, Niger, Upper Volta, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Rwanda, Burundi, the Congo and Zaire.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By original file series reference within three-year file cycle.
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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)
- EWA file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Overseas Development Administration, East and West Africa Department, 1980-1986
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 149 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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 1999 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)
- 1980-1986
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- OD 53/1-12 were selected for permanent preservation following an accelerated review process under the Open Government Initiative in the Overseas Development Administration which identified certain subjects whose records could be released early, including these files on humanitarian relief to Ethiopia in 1982-1984 and a manpower review in Kenya. Other files in the series will be subjected to selection review when they are due regular second review from c. 2005.
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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 Eastern and Western Africa Department was formed in 1980, taking over part of the responsibilities of two predecessor departments, Eastern and General Africa Department and Western and Northern Africa Department. Much of the development work carried out in the Eastern and Indian Ocean part of this area was actually performed from the East Africa Development Division office in Nairobi. The department was abolished in 1986, its responsibilities being split between two new departments, Eastern Africa Department, and West and North Africa and the Mediterranean Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14906/
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