Catalogue description Overseas Development Administration and successors: Disaster and Refugee Units and successors: Registered Files (OMA, OMB and EM Series)

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Reference: OD 142
Title: Overseas Development Administration and successors: Disaster and Refugee Units and successors: Registered Files (OMA, OMB and EM Series)
Description:

This series contains records dealing with disaster preparedness and relief - in particular, liaison with the Ministry of Defence, other UK Government Departments and International Organisations on emergency relief and other humanitarian disaster issues.
Date: 1987-1995
Arrangement:

These files are arranged in file reference order.

Related material:

Files created prior to 1987 can be located within series OD 69
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: OMA, OMB, EMA, EMB, EMC, EMD, EME, EMF, EMG, EMH, EMI, EMJ, EMK, EMW
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for International Development, 1997-

Overseas Development Administration, 1979-1997
Physical description: 46 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2020 Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

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:

The OMA and OMB file prefixes were first used in 1987/88 and allocated to the Units dealing with humanitarian disaster and emergency aid. At the start of the 1992/94 file period the Units were allocated the EM prefixes.

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

Overseas Development Administration (ODA):

  • 1987 to 1991 Overseas Manpower Division: Disaster and Refugee Units;
  • 1992 to 1993 Establishment Division: Disaster and Refugee Units;
  • 1994 to 1997 Personnel and Organisation Division: Emergency Aid Department.

Department for International Development (DFID):

  • 1998 to 2006 Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs Department.

From 2001 the remit of the Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs Department was extended to cover such issues as global conflict prevention, security sector reform, de-mining and mine clearance, arms and export licences

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