Baguio City-The National Nutrition Council-Cordillera Administrative facilitates the transitioning of the Monitoring and evaluation of Local Level Implementation(MELLPI) from the old tool to a new tool in the region.

“Change has come and generally, change is not comfortable ” said Regional Program Coordinator, Rita Papey in her closing message referring to the adoption of the new MELLPI Tool to replace the old MELLPI tool that was institutionalized since 1979.

Participants raised issues/criticisms on the tool but also showed willingness to make the new tool work knowing that 2019 is like a try out and that it can soon be refined with the comments/suggestions from the ground.

NNC-CAR conducted the first batch of training on the new tool called (MELLPI) Pro for 34 local nutrition workers and partners from Local Government Units (LGU) and members of the Regional Nutrition Assistants on Nutrition (RTAN) last February 27-28, 2019 in Holiday Inn, Baguio City.

The said training aims to orient the nutrition focal persons on the new nutrition evaluation tool which will be adopted this 2019 and the succeeding year.

With the new tool, all LGUs, local nutrition workers (Barangay Nutrition Scholar, District/City Nutrition Program Coordinators, Nutrition Action Officers) will be assessed on specific indicators in line with the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition 2017-2022 or the performance of the nutrition workers based on their expected functions. One of the key features of the new tool, known as MELLPI Pro is the use of electronic tool in the scoring to generate the computed score of the evaluatee.

 Next batches of trainings tentatively scheduled in March and April will target other local nutrition workers at the municipal and city level.