(1) Legal Reform. The objective of this component is to review and revise the existing laws, to define the specific roles of institutions integral to the National Vital Statistics System, and to promote needed legal reform. The grant will facilitate a South-South exchange of consultant services which will advise the legal commission in best legal practices, define institutional roles, and determine legal divisions of responsibility. The commission includes, the National Assembly's Commission on Population (Asamblea Nacional Comision de Poblacion), Supreme Electoral College (Consejo Supremo Electoral), legal advisors and project managers from the National Institute for Information Development (Institucion Nacional de la Informacion y Desarollo, INIDE), Ministry of Health of Nicaragua (MOH/MINSA), and the Nicaraguan Institute of Municipal Development (INIFOM).  (2) Inter-institutional capacity-building and human resources development. This component will finance two workshops in institutional capacity building and human resource development. The objective of the first workshop is to train and sensitize medical personnel at the 17 SILAIS (Local System of Integrated Health Care) centers, as well as civil registry officers in every municipality, in capturing and recording quality data according to the international ICD-10 standards. (3) Campaign for Education of the Population and Information Dissemination. This component will support the National Institute for Information and Development (INIDE)'s national educational campaign whose objective is to increase awareness of the benefits of registering births and deaths in the population. (4) Pilot program for mobile civil registry offices in remote areas. The objective of this component is to train an existing health employee from a district hospital or health center in 45 of the 136 municipalities where SILAIS centers and civil registry offices are inaccessible to remote populations, to serve as a mobile civil registrar. This mobile codifador (coder), will be trained by representatives at MOH, INIDE, and INIFOM.