“Maternal and Perinatal Death Inquiry and Response” (MAPEDIR) means to thoroughly examine and respond to the social, biological and medical events that led to a maternal or perinatal death. Inquiries are conducted of the deaths that occur in a community over several months time, in order to identify common factors that can be acted upon to prevent further deaths. Ongoing inquiries over several years allow a community to assess the impact of its preventive actions and the need for additional interventions. Death inquiries are conducted in the community using a “verbal autopsy” interview with the families of deceased persons. The purpose of this manual is to provide MAPEDIR interviewers with the information they need to conduct systematic, reliable and valid verbal autopsy interviews for maternal deaths. It involves- translation and backtranslation. Since the client did not give clear instructions, its important to start with request of exact details. First it was only 25 pages, then was told all 38 pages and finally since their translated version of Questionnaire also was marked incorrect infront of the client, we have proof reading of the questionnaire also.