Ministry of Overseas Development and successors: Administrative and Social Affairs...

This series consists of the registered files of the Administrative and Social Affairs Department and its successor, the Social Affairs Department. The files relate to policy and case work in the fields of administration, social affairs and rural development. Some files of the TR series of the Training Department were re-registered into the ASA series opened for the new department.

Arrangement of these files is by former file reference within three yearly file cycle

Earlier administrative services development records until November 1966, when responsibility passed to the Training Department are in OD 21

• Ministry of Overseas Development, Administrative and Social Affairs Department, 1970-1972
• Ministry of Overseas Development, Social Affairs Department, 1974-1976
• Overseas Development Administration, Administrative and Social Affairs Department, 1970-1972
• Overseas Development Administration, Social Affairs Department, 1972-1974

From 2001 Department for International Development

Topics

Aid and development

The Administrative and Social Affairs Department was set up in January 1970 to undertake policy and case work on providing aid to developing states in the fields of central and local administration, social affairs and rural development, work previously performed by the policy section of the Training Department. On 1 May 1972 the department was renamed the Social Affairs Department, responsibility for administration aid (which principally took the form of training) having passed to the geographical departments. Responsibility for rural development questions passed to a new Rural Development Department in April 1976, and this expanded to take on all the remaining work of the Social Affairs Department when it was abolished.