
| BANADES | : | National Development Bank |
| BANIC | : | Nicaraguan Bank |
| BHN | : | Basic Human Needs |
| CEPAL | : | Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean |
| CODEHUCA | : | Commission for Human right in Central America |
| CONPES | : | National Council for Social and Economic Planning |
| CORNAP | : | Public sector holding Company |
| CSE | : | Supreme Electoral Council |
| ENABAS | : | National Food Grains Marketing Company |
| ENACAL | : | National Water and Sewerage Company |
| ENITEL | : | National Telecommunication Company |
| ESAF | : | Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility |
| FISE | : | Emergency Social Investment Fund |
| FOMAV | : | Highway Maintenance Fund |
| FSLN | : | Sandinista National Liberation Front |
| FSS | : | Supplementary Social Fund |
| HIPC | : | Highly Indebted Poor Country |
| I-PRSP | : | Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper |
| ICOR | : | Incremental Capital Output ratio |
| IDR | : | Rural Development Institute |
| IMF | : | International Monetary Fund |
| INAA | : | Water and Sewerage Regulatory Institute |
| INATEC | : | National Technological Institute |
| INETER | : | Territorial Studies Institute |
| MIGOB | : | Ministry of Government Affairs |
| MTI | : | Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure |
| NGO | : | Non-Governmental Organization |
| ODA | : | Official Development Assistance |
| OJT | : | On the job training |
| ONUCA | : | United Nations Observer Group in Central America |
| OOT | : | Territorial Rationalization Office |
| PADCA | : | Mine-Cleaning Program for Central America |
| PANic | : | Nicaragua Environmental Policy and Action Plan |
| PCN | : | Nicaraguan Conservative Party |
| PETRONIC | : | The government-owned oil company |
| PHC | : | Primary Health Care |
| PLC | : | Constitutionalist Liberal Party |
| PNDR | : | National Rural Development Program |
| PNR | : | National Plan for Reconstruction |
| PRGF | : | Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility |
| PRRD | : | Regional Plan for Disaster Reduction |
| RAAN | : | North Atlantic Autonomous Region |
| RAAS | : | South Atlantic Autonomous Region |
| SETEC | : | Technical Secretariat of the Presidency |
| SGPRS | : | Strengthened Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy |
| SILAIS | : | System of Local Health Care Centers |
| SNIP | : | National System of Public Investment |
| SNPMAD | : | National System for the Prevention, Mitigation and Disaster Relief |
| UNDP | : | United Nations Development Program |
| USAID | : | United States Agency for International Development |