international co-operation in that field. 14/ The International Year of Disabled Persons sought support for research, 1¿/ while the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless recommended "consolidating and sharing all new and existing knowledge and relevant experience" as well as promoting a "full range of tested and practical alternatives". 1^/ United Nations activities can undoubtedly contribute to disseminating existing knowledge and to stimulating innovation, but this will have little practical effect where the problems addressed are rooted in politics rather than ignorance. 8. Resource transfers have also been contemplated. For example the International Year of the Child was to "mobilize support for national and local action programmes according to each country's conditions, needs and priorities". 12/ Similarly, the Decade of Disabled Persons called for international co-operation to assist the developing countries in implementing projects at the national level. 18/ C. Increasing participation 9. "Full participation" in national society was the goal of the International Year for Disabled Persons, 19/ and a major theme of the Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women. 2Û/ The International Youth Year referred to "involving" the target group more fully in the work of the United Nations system itself. 21/ 10. Popular participation figures prominently in the 1986 Declaration on the Right to Development, and in United Nations operational programmes for development. As a recent report by the Secretary-General concluded, 'Ъroadly based participation in development programmes is essential". ¿2/ It should therefore play a greater role in future years. This is particularly applicable to a year for indigenous peoples, whose right to participate in, and to the greatest possible extent control their own development has been recognized by article 7 of ILO Convention No. 169. III. PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES A. Publications 11. All years have generated special publications. Publications appear to 
**Analysis**
The text discusses international cooperation, resource transfers, and increasing participation in various areas, including development, disabled persons, shelter for the homeless, and indigenous peoples. These topics seem to be more focused on social and humanitarian issues rather than economic or natural resource-related issues.

**Category**
Humanitarian aid and relief, Education