INSAI External Training Files

31313

1963-1989, predominant 1974-1988

series

textual records

6.5 linear feet of textual records

English

Collaboration with other international organizations, External training programs

Series is open according to the Archives Access Policy. Files will be screened by reference staff for any time restrictions.

Series consists of records maintained by the IMF Institute Immediate Office (INSAI) documenting the development and operations of the Institute's external training program including its relations with other international and regional economic training institutes. By 1986, the Institute's external training program consisted of three facets: lecturing assistance provided to national and regional training institutes/organizations in member countries; seminars organized jointly in collaboration with other training institutes or the host country, which occurred increasingly in the mid-1980s; and external training or meetings attended by the Institute Director or another official as a representative of IMF., Most of the records in the series relate to the preparation and delivery of lectures and seminars abroad which were typically initiated at the request of the country or institution. Cooperation in arranging training seminars with other external training institutes is particularly notable in respect of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) and World Bank's Economic Development Institute (EDI). Some records also document general visits or missions to countries/training centers by the Institute Director or other representatives, as well as the Director's participation as IMF representative at meetings such as the United Nations' Annual Meeting of Directors of UN Institutes for Training, Research and Planning and OCED meeting of institute directors. Series includes mostly incoming and outgoing correspondence of the Institute Director and Deputy Director such as letters, memoranda, cables and facsimiles, mission reports, summaries of seminar/lecture content, meeting records (meetings held with country delegations), copies of IMF documentation as background material on a specific country or organization, often in the form of reports to the Executive Board or discussion papers and essays, and occasionally seminar/course timetables, syllabi and list of participants. There is also a photograph of U Tun Wai and SEACEN 1984 conference participants. Files are arranged in alphabetical order by geographic region/country, or institution/organization and are in reverse chronological order within each file.