Catalogue description Overseas Development Administration and successors: Southern Asia Department; Registered files

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Reference: OD 139
Title: Overseas Development Administration and successors: Southern Asia Department; Registered files
Description:

This series contains records covering the development of policy and provision of bilateral and multilateral aid to countries throughout South Asia and the Indian Sub-Continent (Commonwealth and Non Commonwealth).
Date: 1987-1994
Arrangement:

These files are arranged in file reference order.

Related material:

See also:

Files created prior to 1987 can be located within series: OD 27

OD 34

OD 35

OD 120
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: ASL, ASM, ASN, ASO, ASP and ASQ
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for International Development, 1997-

Overseas Development Administration, 1979-1997
Physical description: 188 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2017 Department for International Development
Accumulation dates: The paper file series started in 1987 and ended in 2006
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

File prefixes in this series were first used in 1987/88 and allocated to the Department dealing with aid to countries in South Asia, at that time Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan. By the end of 1995 the Department was only dealing with aid to India and at the beginning of 1996 responsibility for this was delegated to the British Development Cooperation Office Delhi, (later DFID India). All the files concerning India using the ASL and ASN prefix were transferred to Delhi at that time. Therefore this series will also contain files sent to the UK for second review from DFID India.

The creating departments within the Africa Division for these files are defined as follows:

Overseas Development Administration (ODA):

1987 to 1990 Southern Asia Department; 1991 to 1992 South Asia I Department; South Asia II Department;1993 to 1995 Southern Asia Department; 1996 British Development Cooperation Office, Delhi.

Department for International Development (DFID):

1997 to 2006 DFID India.

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