The series consists of records which deal with the origination, formulation, execution and evaluation of the relevant projects. The types of records include any of the following: proposals, preparatory documentation, agreements, plans of operation and various reports such as progress, technical, mission, evaluation, etc. There are also departmental supporting documents which comprise background data, guidelines, studies, terms of reference and other relevant papers that bear elements further elucidating project activities. The department which is responsible for providing the necessary advisory services and assistance to the governments of developing countries and countries with economies in transition to strengthen their national capacities has been re-organized several times under the following names:
Dept. of Economic Affairs, ca 1946-1954
Dept. of Economic and Social Council, ca 1955
Technical Assistance Administration, ca 1955-1958
Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs, ca 1955-1978
Office of Technical Co-operation, ca 1967-1977
Dept. of International Economic and Social Affairs, ca 1979-1993
Dept. of Technical Co-operation for Development, ca 1979-1993
United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations, ca 1985-1993
Dept. for Policy Co-ordination and Sustainable Development, ca1994-1997
Dept. for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, ca 1994-1997
Dept. for Development Support and Management Services, ca 1994-1997
Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs, ca 1998 up to present.
To preserve their identity, the records of the various technical assistance projects are maintained according to their provenance, i.e. the actual name of the organizational element which originated the records forms a part of the series title.Accession numbers - 74/17; 75/14
Series documents departmental reorganizations, security arrangements, travel of United Nations officials, functions of the Secretary-General and Chef de Cabinet, conferences and meetings, cooperation and liaison, and protocol. Files are all numbered in the 400 series. Records consist of correspondence, memoranda, clear cables, United Nations official documents, reports, newspaper clippings, brochures, itineraries, and speeches. Correspondents include Secretaries-General U Thant and Kurt Waldheim, Deputy Chef de Cabinet then Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs Jose Rolz-Bennett, and Under-Secretary-General for Department of Economic and Social Affairs Philippe de Seynes. Arranged alphabetically in numbered subject categories.
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Series consists of correspondence, cables, compiled cable messages, telegrams, memoranda, handwritten documents, proposals, draft reports, reports, summary records of meetings, abstracts, extracts, demurrage claims, appendices, press releases, newsclippings, news excerpts, weekly newsletters, resumes, aides-memoires, notes, contracts, surveys, survey certificate, schedules, itineraries, lists, logs, booklets, brochures, graphs, and diagrams.
Subjects include but are not limited to the following: administration; personnel; senior staff meetings; UNROD elections; social events; logistics; technical assistance; finance; initial needs of Pakistan and Bangladesh; refugees; minorities; repatriation; economics; local business; local training and education; women's issues; Foster Parent Plan; health assistance; Red Cross; UNICEF; WHO; INO; UNDEP; transportation policy; road transport scheme; ports clearance; shipping; salvage; aircraft; admission of Bangladesh to Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East; and the cabinet of the Bangladesh government.
Correspondents include Kurt Waldheim, UN Secretary-General; Marc Pasquet, Chief Administrative Officer, UNROD; Johan Boe, Chief Administrative Officer, UNROB; Bernard Oury, Senior Economic Affairs Advisor; Peter Wheeler, Senior Food Advisor, UNROD; and Francis Lacoste, Special Representative of Secretary-General and Chief of Mission, UNROB.
Series includes Accessions 1978/0024 and 1981/0151.
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Administrative history: The Registry Section was established ca. 1954; the system was discontinued in 1979, after the decision to move to a decentralized records management system. Function was the centralization of Secretariat recordkeeping in one large classification system. Predecessor was Central Registry Section. Succeeded by decentralized recordkeeping by departments in consultation with the Archives Section's records management programme.
Series consists of the Registry Section's files relating to personnel matters. Arranged numerically according to filing plan, and therein chronologically.
Series includes subject files and documents - Accession No. 1981/0045.
Geronimo
Series consists of the following sub-series: 1.2.2.1:58; 1.2.7:3; 1.2.9:17; 1.2.12:1, 2, 8; 1.3.1:1; 2.2.3:3; 2.3.2:8. Boxes were part of Wanda von Pryba's declassification records - Series S-0599.
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Records in S-1925 document the coordination of projects and partnerships between the Development Planning Advisory Services (DPAS) section of the Centre for Development Planning, Projections and Policies (CDPPP) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) and the United Nations regional economic commissions. The bulk of records dates from 1973 to 1976 and details the planning and placement of long-term advisers to interdisciplinary United Nations Development Advisory Teams (UNDAT) expert posts in developing countries and regions.
S-1925 consists of records from UNDATs in the regions of: the Caribbean, Central Africa, Central America, South East Africa, South America, the South Pacific, and West Africa. Assigned to a group of countries, the UNDATs advised individual governments in overall development planning and facilitated collaboration for multinational projects. Each UNDAT consisted of a team leader and five to eight technical advisers form various fields, including economic and social development planning, financial management, public administration and agriculture.
DPAS and the regional economic commissions, including the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA), and the Economic Commission for Asia and the Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), collaborated to recruit and arrange the placement of experts, conduct periodic reviews of UNDAT activities, and provide comments and recommendations on reports. UNDATs were originally funded from Part V of the regular UN budget and the UN Trust Fund for Development Planning and Projections. In 1976, following a decrease in funding, the responsibilities of the UNDATs were decentralized to the regional economic commissions and the UNDAT programme was dissolved.
Arranged alphabetically by region, the records include job descriptions and terms of reference, meeting minutes, and reports. S-1925 also includes correspondence and memoranda exchanged between DPAS, the regional economic commissions, and UNDAT advisers.
Correspondence and memoranda concern: UNDAT financing, programme development and activities, comments on reports, and the status of UNDAT advisers’ contracts. Reports include monthly activity reports, progress reports and mission reports authored by team leaders and UNDAT advisers.