HURIDOCS gladly announces the publication of the first volumes in a new series of brief, practical manuals aimed to help build the capacity of human rights organisations with regard to monitoring and documentation. The volumes in this Human Rights Monitoring and Documentation Series are especially designed for small non-governmental human rights organisations which often have limited resources and a small staff who are assigned multiple tasks. The handy size of the manuals makes them excellent reference materials. In addition, they are written in a style that facilitates learning and could serve effectively as materials for training, including individualised and self-initiated learning.

Civil Society participation in education policy debate should be increased by mobilising broad-based constituencies to advocate for quality basic education and increaseing district capacity support for improving the conditions for learning in deprived rural areas. These are two of the recommendations of a CARE International study to discover what types of complimentary education services have been effective in reaching the under-served in Ghana, especially female, populations in rural deprived areas.