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Catalogue description Overseas Development Administration: Eastern and Western Africa Department: Registered Files (EWA Series)
| Reference: | OD 53 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Overseas Development Administration: Eastern and Western Africa Department: Registered Files (EWA Series) |
| Description: |
The records in this registered file series of the Eastern and Western Africa Department concern the provision and management of development aid to Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mauritius, the Seychelles, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Benin, Togo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Central African Republic, the Gambia, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, Chad, the Ivory Coast, Niger, Upper Volta, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Rwanda, Burundi, the Congo and Zaire. |
| Date: | 1981-1986 |
| Arrangement: |
By original file series reference within three-year file cycle. |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | EWA file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Overseas Development Administration, East and West Africa Department, 1980-1986 |
| Physical description: | 149 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1999 Department for International Development |
| Accumulation dates: | 1980-1986 |
| Selection and destruction information: | OD 53/1-12 were selected for permanent preservation following an accelerated review process under the Open Government Initiative in the Overseas Development Administration which identified certain subjects whose records could be released early, including these files on humanitarian relief to Ethiopia in 1982-1984 and a manpower review in Kenya. Other files in the series will be subjected to selection review when they are due regular second review from c. 2005. |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Eastern and Western Africa Department was formed in 1980, taking over part of the responsibilities of two predecessor departments, Eastern and General Africa Department and Western and Northern Africa Department. Much of the development work carried out in the Eastern and Indian Ocean part of this area was actually performed from the East Africa Development Division office in Nairobi. The department was abolished in 1986, its responsibilities being split between two new departments, Eastern Africa Department, and West and North Africa and the Mediterranean Department. |
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