aeveloptng research projecls which explore the problen€ of disadvantaged youth' creacing debaBea, contests, Iiteracy Progrannes, youth exchange8 and recreational progranlnes fo! youtht and reviewing and evaluating youth activicies during the Year and planning for the future. Lesotho: the Lesotho National co-ordinating connittee, established in 1983, meets ;riJ; nonth to revien L€sotho's rncernational Youth Year activities' the main objectives of the Committee lnclude advising tbe Governnent on pollcy matters reiating to youth developnent, assietlng alisErict co-ordlnating connittees on youth activllies and, through various progranmes and governnent policies, promotlnq youth particiPation in aU activitles of the country' Bolh governnental and non-gorra.n^antal organizations are rePresenCed on tbe CorunitEee ' Eiqht sub-commltteea have been establlshed to concentrate attention on training' finances, health, incone generation, youth nobiLization, place and legal Etatus of youth, publlcity, iecreetlon and culture. Liberian National Co-ordinating Comrnitt€e for the InCernational Youth a National Youth Assembly in 1983. On the basis of decisiona taken of actlon €nd develoPrnent projecls were prepared' on the occaslon of of the Year ln 1985, a National Youth Servlce Corps is being Governmene of Liberia bas also donated SuS 5,000 to the Trust FundLiberia: the Year sponsored there, a plan the obBereancecreated. Thefor Ehe Year. q!3@, presialett over by the Uinlster of PoPulaCion, Social CondiEions' Youth '"dsp"rt',theNationalco-ordinatlngcornmitteeforthelnlernationalYouehYearln uadagaacar i6 conpoaed of one representative of each of the following: the National. PoPular Assenblyt each governnental nlnislry, the National Planning Officel eacl polilical pirty's youth wing, non-governnen ta 1 organizationst and natlonal Eporta organlzatio;s. Speclfic objectives for the Year are outlined aLong the follo?ing r0afor Ehemes t youth policiest the escablishment of institsutions for the effective mobilization of youtht the elaboration of a national charter on youtht econonic activlties: the atruggle for aqricultural self-suff ic iency t the effectirre utllization of resources to eliminate unenployment, particularly among