One promotes local economic development and was launched with partner training institutions in Asia and Latin America , the other a revised local elected leadership series launched with partners in Africa , Asia , and eastern Europe . In addition , UN-Habitat has initiated the development of a training manual on participatory budgeting for sub-Saharan Africa , in collaboration with the Centro Internacional de Gestión Urbana ( International Urban Management Centre - CIGU ) , the People 's Urban Economy Team of the organization Environmental Development Action in the Third World ( ENDA-ECOPOP ) and the Municipal Development Partnership for Eastern and Southern Africa ( MDP-ESA ) , as well as initiating work to develop methodologies for assessing training impact on performance , with a workshop on training impact evaluation and an e-forum on the subject involving 30 partner institutions .