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Overseas Development Administration: United Nations and Commonwealth Department:...

Catalogue reference: OD 55

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OD 55

The records in this series of registered files of the United Nations and Commonwealth Department A deal with general questions regarding the United Nations development system: including the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the United...

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Reference
OD 55
Title
Overseas Development Administration: United Nations and Commonwealth Department: Registered Files (IDI Series)
Date
1984-1988
Description

The records in this series of registered files of the United Nations and Commonwealth Department A deal with general questions regarding the United Nations development system: including the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the United Nations General Assembly, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and Fund, policy questions relating to the United Nations regional economic commissions, the United Nations Fund for Namibia, the United Nations Educational and Training Programme for Southern Africa, United Kingdom policy towards the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF); and various Commonwealth development programmes, including: the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation, the Commonwealth Foundation and the Commonwealth Youth Programme.

Arrangement
Arrangement

By original file series reference within three-year file cycle.

Related material

IDI prefix files from 1989 to 2006 are held in: OD 148

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
IDI file series
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Creator(s)
Overseas Development Administration, United Nations and Commonwealth Department, 1984-1997
Physical description
17 file(s)
Access conditions
Open
Immediate source of acquisition

from 1999 Department for International Development

Subjects
Topics
Aid and development
Children
Food and drink
Farming
Africa
Selection and destruction information
OD 55/1-4 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 multilateral agencies evaluation systems. Other files in the series will be subjected to selection review when they are due regular second review from c. 2010. The first records in the series are from records transferred early under the Open Government Initiative.
Administrative / biographical background

The United Nations and Commonwealth Department was formed in 1984 after the merger of its predecessors, United Nations Department A and United Nations Department B to handle all development questions of United Kingdom relations with the United Nations and the Commonwealth.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14908/

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