Collection 2: Action for World Development (N.S.W.) further records, 1967-2005

MLMSS 9240

sub-fonds

1967-2005

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Objects, Photographs, Ephemera

874591

2.55 metres of textual material (15 boxes)

Action for World Development (NSW) further records, 1967-2005. The collection comprises correspondence, minutes of meetings and supporting papers, questionnaires, newsletters, information leaflets, flyers, colour and black & white photographs and ephemera. Material relates to the AWD Working group, AWD Coordinating Team, AWD archivist, the Racism Awareness Program, and the Agriculture and Food Group.

BOX 1
Minute book: minutes of the AWD Working Group meetings, 27 July 1998- 18 Nov. 2002
Minute book: minutes of AWD (NSW) annual general meetings and Working Group meetings, 22 Feb. 1992– 24 June
Minute book: minutes of AWD (NSW) annual general meetings; annual reports, 22 Feb. 1992– 9 Mar. 2002
AWD policy documents and related correspondence, being AWD (NSW) Constitution, 1990, 1998; mission statement, 1999; employment contract, 2000
Coordinating team files, being minutes of annual general meetings and annual reports, 1988-2001 [incomplete]
Evaluation, being correspondence and reports including AWD 1994 evaluation; 1994-1996

BOX 2
AWD Evaluation Questionnaire, being questionnaire responses, 1994
AWD Working Group correspondence Files (5), 1989-1997
AWD (NSW) fundraising working papers and correspondence, 1998-2002

BOX 3
Diaries (6), containing handwritten entries including notes and phone messages, 1992-1997

BOX 4
AWD NSW newsletters, 1991-2003
AWD NSW and AWD Australia printed material, booklets, pamphlets, leaflets, flyers etc., 1976-2003
2 badges: ‘Development is for the people’; ‘We are in the global village’; n.d.

BOX 5
Minute book: ‘AWD NSW staff meetings’, being handwritten and typescript pasted-in minutes of AWD NSW staff meetings, 20 Mar. 1991 – 15 Mar. [2000?]
Minute book: ‘Team / collective book of minutes’, being handwritten minutes of team/collective meetings, 7 Mar. 1988 – 17 Oct. 1990
Minute book: ‘Coordinator’s minute book’, being handwritten minutes of meetings, 14 Jan. 1988 – 27 June 2000
Minute book: ‘Coordinating group’, being minutes of Coordinating Group meetings, 6 July 2000 – 2 May 2002
AWD NSW correspondence, being office administrator’s correspondence file, 1988-1989
Office administrator correspondence file, 1992-2003
Coordinator records, being copies of correspondence, flyers, minutes of meetings, notes, etc., 1998-2003

BOX 6
Members’ mail outs, being copies of newsletters, flyers, correspondence etc. mailed to members, 1986-2002
Coordinating team AWD (NSW) courses, workshops and other events, information leaflets and related records, 1986-2002
Coordinating team leaflets about AWD and the resources available at the AWD centre, ca. 1990-2002
Coordinating team: ‘What’s happening’ file, being material concerning AWD staff development: Bundeena 1999, and handwritten and typescript notes, 1999-2001
8 colour and black & white photographs of AWD staff and the AWD centre, 1990-2000
‘Spiritual Reflections’ records, being material concerning AWD events including Hiroshima Day service etc., 1972-1998
‘Articles about AWD’, being newsletters, essays etc. concerning AWD, 1975-2005
‘Archivist’s file’, being records concerning AWD’s administrative history, and correspondence concerning AWD records, 1988-2002; lists of records deposited with the State Library of NSW, ca. 2005
‘Coordinating team action development cooperation’, being correspondence, 1996-2002
‘Coordinating team lobbying through letter writing’, being correspondence with politicians etc., 1996-2002
Cash book, 1998-2002

BOX 7
‘Library acquisitions policy for periodicals’, being samples of periodicals: exchange, subscriptions, gifts, 1994-2002
‘Library acquisitions: development cooperation; examples’, 1994-2000
‘Library acquisitions policy: publications used for AWD lobbying and gifts; examples’, 1989-2000
‘Library acquisitions from AWD development education files; examples’, 1967-1980
‘Library: guide and management records’, 1998-2003

BOX 8
‘Structural analysis workshops records’, 1982-1996
‘Economic Analysis Group: minutes and correspondence’, 1987-1991
‘20th Anniversary Celebrations Group: correspondence and working papers’, 1992
‘Pacific Awareness Program: correspondence’, 1986-1993
‘Pacific networking: completed questionnaires and analysis report’, ca. 1992-1993

BOX 9
‘Racism Awareness Program: correspondence’, including correspondence with politicians; 1986-1992; 1996-1997
‘Racism Awareness: Black Deaths in Custody correspondence’, 1986-1988
‘Racism Awareness: urgent action files correspondence’, 1988-1992
‘Racism Awareness: Bicentenary Group: minutes and correspondence’, 1987-1989
‘Racism Task Group and Land Rights Group: minutes’, 1986; 1989-1992
‘World Council of Churches visit to Aboriginal communities: correspondence’, 1987-1991
‘World Council of Churches visit to Aboriginal communities: published report’, 1991

BOX 10
‘Racism Awareness workshops: correspondence and working papers, 1987-1993
‘Racism Awareness workshops: records’, 1997-2002
‘Racism Awareness Program: miscellaneous projects, correspondence etc.’, 1989-2001
‘Aboriginal Justice Support Group: minutes and correspondence’, 1989-2001
‘Aboriginal Justice Support Group: Pay the Rent project records, 1992-1993

BOX 11
‘Action Day group: minutes’, 1986-1987; Agribusiness Group, later Agriculture and Food Group: minutes and reports, 1987-1991
‘Agriculture and Food Group: minutes and reports’, 1991-1998
‘Agriculture and Food Group: administration, reports and planning records’, 1988-2001
‘Agriculture and Food Group: newsletters 1991-1993
‘Agriculture and Food Group: mail outs and brochures’, 1988-2000
‘Agriculture and Food Group: general correspondence’, 1986-2000

BOX 12
‘Agriculture and Food Group: rural crisis survey data’, 1988
‘Agriculture and Food Group: rural crisis: Bathurst and Orange workshops’, 1990-1991
‘Agriculture and Food Group: urban and rural links project correspondence’, 1990-1993
‘Agriculture and Food Group: urban and rural links project officer’s records, 1990-1992
‘Agriculture and Food Group: Living in the Pineapple Republic simulation game’, 1989
‘Agriculture and Food Group: sustainability, how to know what to buy, staple foods, urban agriculture, survey report, other records’, 1991-2002
‘Agriculture and Food Group: lobbying, correspondence and submissions’, 1988-2003

BOX 13
‘Agriculture and Food Group: workshops, other events, leaflets, related records’, 1989-2002
‘Agriculture and Food Group: Fair Trade Project, development cooperation Philippines, correspondence and reports’, 1993-1996
‘Agriculture and Food Group: consultancy for Community Aid Abroad records’, 1995-1996
‘Agriculture and Food Group: development cooperation Sri Lanka records’, 1992-2002
‘Agriculture and Food Group: solidarity and development cooperation with Catholic religious and National Council of Churches records, 1992-1999
‘Agriculture and Food Group: solidarity and UN Conference on Women records’, 1994-2002
‘Agriculture and Food Group: solidarity and development cooperation miscellaneous records’, 19892002

BOX 14
‘Agriculture and Food Group: permaculture courses miscellaneous records’, 1992-2002
‘Agriculture and Food Group: development education marketing, publications’, 1988-2001
‘Agriculture and Food Group: photograghs’ being 8 colour and 12 black & white photographs, 1989-1991; 2000
‘Agriculture and Food Group: workbooks (5)’, 1991-2001
‘Seedwatch campaign – minutes, correspondence and working papers’, 1998-2001

BOX 15
‘Development cooperation: Vanaja Rampasad workshop records’, 2001
‘Permaculture and Development minutes and correspondence’, 1997-2000
‘Development cooperation: Badri Dahal, permaculture movement records’, 1996-2002
‘Permaculture consultancies, Permatalk correspondence and other records’, 1996-2002
‘Philippines desk: correspondence and other records’, 1993-1997
‘Newsletter group: minutes and correspondence, 1985-2002
Website correspondence and working papers, 2001
Bankstown and other AWD groups: miscellaneous records, 1988-1998

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