15 goalstr. They also identified public relations and public opinion as democratic r" rays that keep public informed and not influenced by propaganda.

What has been done in the field of grassroots participation? The desire to implement projects successfully seems to be the major driving force for the current, world-wide, effort in grassroots participation. This issue emerqed in the United States with the Urban Renewal Act of 1954. Federal legislation was formed, agencies carried out practices of citj. zen participation. For the developing countries, this issue seems to inherit its roots from the community development field that began to receive the United Nationsr attention in the early sixties. A study on communj-ty development and national planning was included in the 1963-1955 work program for the United Nations' Social Commission (Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, Lg57).