6-12 December 2012-- Two batches of Promote Good Nutrition/ Infant and Young Child Feeding (PGN/ IYCF) Training was conducted for the City/ Municipal Implementers of Benguet Province and Baguio City held at Highpoint Botique Inn, Baguio City. The trainings were attended by 42 participants composed of Municipal Nutrition Action Officers, Midwives, Nurses, District Nutrition Program Coordinators, and other nutrition implementers from Benguet Province and Baguio City.

Participants are expected to conduct trainings on PGN at the barangay level and assist in the organization of community-based breastfeeding support groups and also to facilitate conduct of the Pabasa sa Nutrisyon and the use of the Egg Syllabus and Vegetable Syllabus in the barangays. It is also expected that after the full implementation of the program, it will increase the number of mothers practicing exclusive breastfeeding, proper complementary feeding and enhanced knowledge on proper nutrition which would contribute on the improvement of the regional nutrition situation and the attainment of MDG1 particularly the reduction on the proportion of under-five underweight children.

With the aim of the Promote Good Nutrition (PGN) to improve the food and nutrition knowledge, attitude and practices of Filipino families, the nutrition implementers, through the training were capacitated in the promotion of Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) and healthy eating habits of Filipinos.