The Guide is produced as part of a UNIFEM, UNDP, and Gender at Work initiative called Gender and Democratic Governance in Development, which aims to improve the governance of basic services provision to women.

A Users' Guide to Measuring Corruption, jointly produced by UNDP and Global Integrity, is one of the first attempts to explore how best to use existing tools to measure what is increasingly viewed as one of the major impediments to development: corruption. Also available in French: http://www.undp.org/oslocentre/docs08/users_guide_measuring_corruption_french.pdf

ALISON is the world's leading free online learning resource for basic and essential workplace skills. ALISON provides high-quality, engaging, interactive multimedia courseware for certification and standards-based learning. All courses on ALISON are accessible for free to individual learners. ALISON’s mission is to enable anyone, anywhere, to educate themselves for free via interactive self-paced multimedia. It is underpinned by a Human Rights philosophy that stipulates that everyone has the right to free education.

Most parts of the public sector occupy significant amounts of property. Yet a majority of public sector organisations are battling with portfolios that are too large, do not meet their current needs, are unlikely to meet their future ones, are unsustainable and are costly to run. Property features prominently in two of the sections of the UK Treasury's Operating Efficiency Programme (OEP) for this very reason. The over-riding challenge for the public sector is how best to realise value from surplus assets whilst reducing cost and continuing to improve services. This opinion piece examines the case for collaboration to achieve the efficiencies required within and across the public sector estate. In particular, it explores how planning across geographical regions can enable the “joined up delivery” that contributes to efficiency.

ELDIS is a knowledge warehouse, comprising more than 26,000 full text documents on development-related topics, free to download. It maintains an ever-growing collection of editorially selected and abstracted full-text, online documents selected by their editors from more than 7,500 different publishers. All documents are available free of charge. ELDIS is a knowledge services from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. United, Kingdom.

These instruments for training and learning evaluation and follow-up were developed by W Leslie Rae MPhil, FITOL, Chartered FCIPD, who is an expert in this field, and author of over 30 books about training and learning. These materials are free for personal and organizational use subject to the terms stated (basically, retain the copyright notice, accept liability for any issues arising, and don't sell or publish the materials).

The Library provides easy-to-access, clutter-free, comprehensive resources regarding the leadership and management of yourself, other individuals, groups and organizations. Content, although not specifically for government, nor Africa specific, is useful. Over the past 10 years, the Library has grown to be one of the world's largest well-organized collections of these types of resources.

There are approximately 650 topics in the Library, spanning 5,000 links. Topics include the most important practices to start, develop, operate, evaluate and resolve problems in for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Each topic has additionally recommended books and related Library topics

Note the list of free training offered at http://www.managementhelp.org/gen_rsrc/free-training.htm. On the same page, see the links to sites where educators freely share their educational and training materials. In addition to using the materials to design and implement your own learnings about particular topics, you also can learn about systematically designing trainings in general, including about the training's outcomes, goals, learning objectives, training methods, result and methods of evaluation. These include:

• The Open University’s free access to their course material – LearningSpace -- http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
• Study guides and strategies -- http://www.studygs.net/index.htm (English) http://www.studygs.net/francais/index.htm (French); http://www.studygs.net/arabic/index.htm and http://www.studygs.net/portuges/
• Harvard Business Publications’ site for Educators http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/course_materials.jsp

Organisation: African Development Bank

Confronted with an increasingly interconnected and dynamically changing world, governments are developing new ways of thinking ahead and planning strategically to cope better with future threats and opportunities. This report on Horizon Scanning in Government presents an innovative approach to support governments in dealing with uncertainties and in envisaging and realizing the policies they desire. It outlines the concept and purpose of horizon scanning, reviews the experiences of the United Kingdom, Singapore, and the Netherlands, and develops perspectives for the establishment of horizon scanning in Switzerland. The Crisis and Risk Network has released this new publication that will facilitate the work of consultants working with respect to strategic planning and futures oriented analysis for governments. The entire publication can be downloaded for free.