This practical manual introduces strategic foresight as an important practice in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The UNDP Global Centre for Public Service Excellence has been working closely with public service and development practitioners to evolve its "Empowered Futures" approach. Noting the resource constraints in developing country contexts, it proposes light-touch and low-cost methods.

This is a 2018 update to a previous version of the Foresight Manual which featured foresight methodologies and did not yet put them into the context of the sustainable development goals and public service.