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The Health and Demographic Project, the Bank's first in the health sector, will assist the Ministry of Public Health & Population (MOPHP) to strengthen health manpower development through expansion of nurse training capacity to address current shortages, through implementation of a revised curriculum, including family planning & field training, that is more responsive to the health needs of the country, & through development of health manpower planning capacity; (b) improve MOPHP management capability & efficiency of health service delivery by strengthening: (i) the Central Directorates through development of a management information system & improvement in planning & operations; (ii) major hospitals through management training, development of cost containment programs & strengthening of key services; (iii) basic health services through training programs for all staff including auxiliaries & programs in management, supervision & evaluation. The project will also assist the Ministry of Economy & Finance (MEF) to improve the availability of demographic information through strengthening of the Directorate of Statistics to carry out a program of demographic data collection & analysis, including a national population census & a subsequent migration survey.