67. The Administrator wishes to address a special note of gratitude to these Governments and to appeal, once again, to the donor community to make wider use of this cost-effective means of assisting developing countries. D.Youth and domestic development services (DDS)~ participatory development 68. UNV’s conceptual approach to participatory development is described in full in section I above. In operational terms, the programme’s main thrust continued to be the regional IPF-funded activities in Asia and the Pacific. A two-year ex%ension to 1986 of RAS/82/016 was agreed, bringing the total allocation to $2 million. By the end of 1984 a total of 260 UNV/DDS volunteers had been assigned} geographically, the programme expanded to include, under the volunteer exchange programme, an additional six countries - Bhutan, Fiji, India, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu - as recipients of DDS volunteers. Together with Papua New Guinea, which endorsed the project in 1984, a total of 16 countries now participate in this programme. The external evaluation referred to in section I recommended continuation of the programme at the current level to permit its consolidation. 69. In order to involve an even larger number of NGOs, workshops were co-hosted by UNV in Fiji, Thailand and Vanuatu, which resulted in additional requests for the training of NGO workers and the assignment of UNV/DDS volunteers to DDS NGOs. 70. For the mobilization of additional funding from national IPFs for the regional programme, discussions were held with a number of recipient Governments. With the donor countries, discussions are being held for additional allocations for implementing micro income-generating and social welfare projects in conjunction with UNV/DDS volunteer assignments. Noteworthy contributors were the Australian Development Assistance Bureau, the Canadian International Development Agency, the Government of Switzerland, the One Per Cent for Development Fund and the Trickle-Up Programme. .ooDP/1985/44 English Page 17