The Report highlights major initiatives and activities undertaken by the United Nations Volunteers programme during the biennium 1988-1989. The main text covers broad policy developments, several in response to specific decisions taken by the Soverning Council on the United Nations Volunteers programme at the thirty-flfth (1988) and thirty-sixth (1989) sessions. Annex I provides a descriptive review statistical analysis of the current programme, while annex II, with its appended tables, deals with the financial resources of the United Nations Volunteers programme.