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.

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

PricewaterhouseCoopers' Public Sector Research Centre provides insights and research into best practice in government and the public sector, including the interface between the public and private sectors. It covers a wide range of issues including:

• Delivering customer-centric services
• Making public service markets work
• Delivering public services cost-effectively
• Increasing transparency and accountability
• Delivering sustainable development
• Building public sector capabilities

The United Nations University plays a strategic role in Africa as a facilitator of dialogue, a capacity builder, a provider of postgraduate training, and a promoter of innovation. “Priority Africa” provides a portal to the scope and variety of the UNU’s Africa-focused work, including research, policy studies and capacity development initiatives, as well as dissemination initiatives.

Full-text on-line library aimed at researchers. Subscription needed, but can be done for shorter or longer periods. Handy tools re notetaking, referencing, finding others who are carrying out research on similar topics than you. What is disappointing is that books and articles specifically relevant for Africa sometimes blocked for Africa consumers due to copyright restrictions. Nevertheless an extremely useful site for more general management and public administration related material.

The Global Development Network (GDN) is a leading international organization working with developing country researchers and policy research institutes to support the generation and sharing of world-class policy-relevant research on development, helping to strengthen capacity in the process. Founded in 1997, GDN is now headquartered in New Delhi, with supporting offices in Cairo and Washington.

The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 224,000 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 183,200 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. The eLibrary also includes the research papers of a number of Fee Based Partner Publications.

The immediate objective of UNPAN is to establish an internet-based network that links regional and national institutions devoted to public administration, thereby facilitating information exchange, experience sharing, and training in the area of public sector policy and management.

The long-term objective of UNPAN is to build the capacity of these regional and national institutions, so that they can access, process and disseminate relevant information by means of up-to-date information and communication technologies (ICTs) for the promotion of better public administration.