As the Desks became established, the administrations for Asia and the Middle East were drawn together under one Area Director. A process of decentralisation in the 1990s, referred to as 'regionalisation', resulted in management responsibility for Asia being transferred to a Regional Management Centre in Asia. The administration for the Middle East remained in Oxford as part of the Regional Management Centre for Russia, Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union and the Middle East, later the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States region. (See MS. Oxfam PRG/3/3/5/1-43.)