Catalogue description Overseas Development Administration and successors: Africa, the Middle East and Mediterranean; Registered Files (AF Series).

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Details of OD 137
Reference: OD 137
Title: Overseas Development Administration and successors: Africa, the Middle East and Mediterranean; Registered Files (AF Series).
Description:

This series contains files of the Africa Division within the Overseas Development Administration and the Department for International Development, covering the development of policy and provision of UK bilateral and multilateral aid to countries throughout Africa, the Mediterranean and Middle East region (Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth).
Date: 1986-1995
Arrangement:

These files are arranged in file reference order.
Related material:

See also:

OD 53

OD 114

OD 38

OD 66

OD 67

Files created prior to 1987 can be located within series OD 112

OD 113

OD 65
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: AFA, AFB, AFC, AFD, AFE, AFF, AFG, AFH, AFI, AFJ, AFK, AFL, AFM, AFN, AFO, AFP, AFQ, AFR, AFS, AFT, AFU, AFV, AFW, AFX and AFZ
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for International Development, 1997-

Overseas Development Administration, 1979-1997
Physical description: 385 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2017 Department for International Development
Accumulation dates: 1987 to 2006
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The AF series prefixes were first used and allocated to departments in Africa Division in 1987/88, including departments dealing with aid to countries in the Mediterranean and Middle East region, and continued in use for departments in this Division until the final period of Department for International Development (DFID) paper files, 2004/06.

From 1997 onwards responsibility for the provision and administration of both bilateral and multilateral aid was devolved from DFID headquarters to offices in various countries throughout Africa and, to a smaller extent, the Middle East. This series will also contain files sent to the UK from external offices for second review.

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

Overseas Development Administration (ODA):

  • 1987 to 1992 Eastern Africa Department, Central and Southern Africa Department, West and North Africa and the Mediterranean Department.
  • 1993 to 1996 Eastern Africa Department, Central and Southern Africa Department, West and North Africa Department.

Department for International Development (DFID):

  • 1997 Africa Greater Horn and Co-ordination Department, Central and Southern Africa Department, West and North Africa Department, various overseas offices in Africa and the Middle East.
  • 1998 to 2000 Africa Greater Horn and Co-ordination Department, Africa Greater Horn Department, Africa Policy and Economics Department, West and North Africa and the Mediterranean Department, various overseas offices in Africa and the Middle East.
  • 2001 to 2003 Africa Greater Horn Department, Africa Policy and Economics Department, Africa Great Lakes/Greater Horn Department, Middle East and North Africa Department, West Africa and North Africa Department, various overseas offices in Africa and the Middle East.
  • 2004 to 2006 Africa Policy Department, Great Lakes and Horn Department, IMFUNDO, Africa Conflict and Humanitarian Unit, Middle East and North Africa Department, West Africa Department, various overseas offices in Africa and the Middle East.

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