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Ministry of Overseas Development and Overseas Development Administration: International...
Catalogue reference: OD 54
What's it about?
OD 54
The records in this series of registered files of the International Financial Institutions Department deal with general questions regarding the United Kingdom's relations with various international financial institutions concerned with...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- OD 54
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Overseas Development and Overseas Development Administration: International Financial Institutions Department: Registered Files (ID Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1986-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records in this series of registered files of the International Financial Institutions Department deal with general questions regarding the United Kingdom's relations with various international financial institutions concerned with development funding, principally the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Commonwealth Fund and the International Finance Corporation.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The records are arranged in file reference order.
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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)
- IDD, IDE, IDF, IDG and IDH
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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)
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- Department for International Development, 1997-1997
- Overseas Development Administration, International Financial Institutions Department, 1984-1997
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 96 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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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 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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- IDF series files were transferred to the Department for International Development upon its creation in May 1997.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1984 to 2006
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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 54/1-8 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 the replenishment of the African Development Fund. Other files in the series will be subjected to selection review when they are due regular second review from c. 2010.
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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 International Financial Institutions Department was established in 1984 to handle the Overseas Development Administration's relations with the various international development fund institutions, taking over that role from that part of United Nations Department B which had previously handled these matters.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14907/
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