Catalogue description Ministry of Overseas Development and successors: Overseas Manpower and Consultancies Department: Registered Files (OMD Series)

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Reference: OD 122
Title: Ministry of Overseas Development and successors: Overseas Manpower and Consultancies Department: Registered Files (OMD Series)
Description:

This series contains records of the Overseas Manpower and Consultancies Department which provided policy advice on recruitment and contracting of personnel as well as the day to day running of recruitment, contracting and employment of personnel for projects funded under the bilateral aid programme.

Date: 1976-1979
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: OMD
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Overseas Development, 1974-1979

Overseas Development Administration, 1979-1997

Physical description: 8 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2011 Department for International Development

Selection and destruction information: These records are selected under s.3.1.4 of the Acquisition and Disposition Strategy: Regulation and support of economic activity by government, including industry, services, agriculture, transport, energy, trade, and employment and productivity.
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Department was created in 1976 and provided advice on recruitment and contractual policy as well as the day to day running of the recruitment, contracting and employment of personnel to work on bilateral aid funded projects in developing countries around the globe. Technical Co-operation Officer terms, salary supplemented terms (OSAS and BESS) and individuals and companies on consulting terms.

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