The IRMT is a United Kingdom-based charity, established in 1989, to develop new strategies for managing records and information. Its aim is to provide consultancy services, training and education and research into records management across the world. Its work emphasises the importance of managing records as a basis for protecting civil and human rights, reducing poverty, controlling corruption, strengthening democracy, promoting economic and social reform, improving services to citizens, and demonstrating accountability and transparency.
NARS was established in 1996 to oversee both the proper management and care of the records of South Africa's governmental bodies and the preservation and use of the country's archival heritage, and to provide for matters connected therewith. The mission of NARS is to foster a national identity and the protection of rights:
By preserving a national archival heritage for use by the government and people of South Africa; and
By promoting efficient, accountable and transparent government through the proper management and care of government records.
