The State Administration Database

Department for Regional Affairs

This page shows the event history for this unit.

01.01.1989* Regular founding

Name: Department for Global Affairs
Short name: Bilat.avd.
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Division
Located: 301 Oslo

01.01.1990 Change of name

Name: Department for Global Affairs
Short name: Bilat. bistandsavd.

01.01.1990 No change to unit, but change of superior

(The unit reports to a new superior organization because the previous superior organization was terminated at the same time.)

01.01.1993* Change of name

Name: Department for Global Affairs
Short name: Bilat. avd.

01.01.1996* Maintenance by absorption

Incorporated bodies:

01.01.1998* Change of name

Name: Department for Global Affairs
Short name: Bilat.avd.

01.01.2001* Change of name

Name: Department for Global Affairs
Short name: Bilateral avdeling

01.01.2005* Change of name

Name: Department for Global Affairs
Short name: Regionavdelingen

01.01.2007* Change of name

Name: Department for Global Affairs
Short name: Avdeling for regionale spørsmål og utvikling

Please note that this event has comments in Norwegian that are for the present not translated into English.

01.01.2015* Change of name

Name: Department for Regional Affairs
Short name: REGIONAVD

Tasks:
The department is responsible for ensuring that Norwegian international development policy is designed to promote the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals and is in keeping with the Norwegian Government’s priorities. It is also responsible for following up Norwegian interests in regions outside Europe and North America and for developing a more coherent Norwegian foreign policy in these regions.
Source: regjeringen.no (february 2015)

Remarks

* = If a date is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies that the date is not confirmed.

* = If a name is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies a direct translation from Norwegian to English. The translation is thus not necessarily the official one (if any exists at all).

Comment to the change-of-name event: Sometimes the old and new name is the same. This occur when the translation to English haven’t taken into consideration minor Norwegian name change.

Show all changes of superior.