Catalogue description Overseas Development Administration and Ministry of Overseas Development: Organisation Department: Registered Files (ORG Series)

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Reference: OD 59
Title: Overseas Development Administration and Ministry of Overseas Development: Organisation Department: Registered Files (ORG Series)
Description:

The records in this series of registered files of the Organisation Department deal with questions of administrative organisation and the structure of the department, complements and manpower issues.
Date: 1978-1981
Arrangement:

Arranged by original file series reference within three-year file cycle.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: ORG file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Overseas Development Administration, Organisation Department, 1979-1981
Physical description: 111 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1999 Department for International Development
Accumulation dates: 1979-1981
Selection and destruction information: OD 59/1-3 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 the establishment of a development division in the Pacific. Other files in the series will be subjected to selection review when they are due regular second review from c 2003.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Organisation Department was created in 1979 to examine the organisation and staffing of the Overseas Development Administration following changed priorities and structural organisation under the incoming government. The Department was absorbed in 1981 by the Establishment Department, thereafter known as the Establishment and Organisation Department.

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