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Overseas Development Administration and Ministry of Overseas Development: Organisation...

Catalogue reference: OD 59

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OD 59

The records in this series of registered files of the Organisation Department deal with questions of administrative organisation and the structure of the department, complements and manpower issues.

Full description and record details

Reference
OD 59
Title
Overseas Development Administration and Ministry of Overseas Development: Organisation Department: Registered Files (ORG Series)
Date
1978-1981
Description

The records in this series of registered files of the Organisation Department deal with questions of administrative organisation and the structure of the department, complements and manpower issues.

Arrangement
Arrangement

Arranged by original file series reference within three-year file cycle.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
ORG file series
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Creator(s)
Overseas Development Administration, Organisation Department, 1979-1981
Physical description
111 file(s)
Access conditions
Open
Immediate source of acquisition

From 1999 Department for International Development

Subjects
Topics
Labour
Aid and development
Accumulation dates
1979-1981
Selection and destruction information
OD 59/1-3 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 establishment of a development division in the Pacific. Other files in the series will be subjected to selection review when they are due regular second review from c 2003.
Administrative / biographical background

The Organisation Department was created in 1979 to examine the organisation and staffing of the Overseas Development Administration following changed priorities and structural organisation under the incoming government. The Department was absorbed in 1981 by the Establishment Department, thereafter known as the Establishment and Organisation Department.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14912/

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