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IPHO Sulu - Over 61 participants from different agencies attended the Early Childhood Care and Development in the First 1000 Days Signing of Memorandum of Agreement and Signing of Pledge of Commitment and Presentation of the Work and Financial Plan with a Theme: “I am for ECCD F1K” last April 26, 2017 at Dr. Sixto Y. Orosa Hall, IPHO - Sulu.

The National Nutrition Council-ARMM spearheaded the said affair in partnership with the Integrated Provincial Health Office - Sulu. It aimed to fortify partnership between the NNC-ARMM and the IPHO-Sulu to ensure holistic development of the child through coordinated implementation of the F1K components. The program primarily focuses in the delivery of various health services under ECCD component such as prenatal care among pregnant women, nutrition counseling, childhood immunization, exclusive breastfeeding, proper complementary feeding and other health services.

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Image IPC articleThe interagency IPC analyst group conducted the third and fourth rounds of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) chronic food security analysis workshops on 20-24 March and 3-7 April 2017, respectively to determine the level of chronic food insecurity in the remaining 38 provinces from Luzon and Visayas. The analysis covered the provinces of La Union (Region 1); Quirino (Region 2); Aurora, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac and Zambales (Region 3), Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, and Rizal (4A), Oriental Mindoro, Occidental Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan (MIMAROPA); Ifugao, Kalinga and Mountain Province (CAR); Albay, Camarines Sur, Catanduanes and Sorsogon (Region 5); Aklan, Capiz, Guimaras, Iloilo and Negros Occidental (Region 6); Bohol, Cebu, Negros Oriental And Siquijor (Region 7); and Leyte, Northern Samar, Samar and Southern Leyte (Region 8). 

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Image QGIS article 2Selected staff of NNC participated in the Basic GIS Training Using QGIS headed by the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) on 5-9 June 2017 at the NAMRIA Geomatics Center in Taguig City. Nutrition Officers II Margarita DC. Enriquez from the Nutrition Policy and Planning Division, Jeline Marie M. Corpuz and Racelline Faye D. Calangi from the Nutrition Surveillance Division, together with 9 other participants from Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Department of Tourism (DOT), Palawan Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD) and Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) trained in basic mapping concepts and use of different kinds of maps.

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sl-11House of Representatives’ (HOR) Committee on Appropriations has approved the “Kalusugan at Nutrisyon ng Mag-Nanay Act”, a bill to strengthen the national and local health and nutrition programs for pregnant and lactating women, adolescent girls, infants and young children in the first 1000 days. Dr. Sandra Eriguel, La Union Second District Representative and House Committee on Health Vice Chairperson, sponsored the bill which aims to provide a conducive policy environment for nutrition improvement and a more comprehensive, sustainable and multi-sectoral approach to address health and malnutrition.

The bill seeks to refocus intervention for addressing malnutrition among the most nutritionally at risk, prioritizing women of reproductive age, especially adolescent girls, teen-age age mothers, pregnant and lactating women and children from birth up to 24 months, to address the health and nutrition problems of these vulnerable groups. The bill tasked the Department of Health and the National Nutrition Council (NNC) to formulate a strategy that is comprehensive and sustainable.