The National Nutrition Council-NCR conducted another batch of Nutrition Program Management (NPM) Training at the Makati Palace Hotel, Makati City on June 1-5, 2015. Thirty (30) local nutrition workers composed of city nutrition program coordinators, members of city nutrition committees and selected barangay nutrition scholars from the cities of Taguig, Muntinlupa, Manila, Pasig, Mandaluyong, Parañaque, Caloocan, Malabon, Marikina, Las Piñas, Quezon, and San Juan, and the Municipality of Pateros attended and completed the 5-day live-in training.

The training was facilitated by Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator Milagros Elisa V. Federizo, Ms. Ana Ordenes (Nutritionist-Dietitian III of Muntinlupa City), Ms. Femilina Tuazon (ND III from Makati City), and Ms. Marlene Navarro (Program Manager of Grace Family Helper Project and member of the Regional Management Group). Other resource speakers were Nutrition Officer III Emerenciana L. Francia and NO II Theresa A. Rivas while Nutrition Officer I Mary Agnes Beatrice R. Menorca acted both as training secretariat and participant.

The training consisted of eight (8) modules that aimed to enhance the participants’ knowledge and skills in the area of NPM. Through the training, the participants were able to have a better understanding of the NPM process and more capable of understanding their local nutrition situation as well as identifying ways of improving local NPM, particularly in the planning, implementation and management of a responsive and effective local nutrition program. (MABRM/MEVF/NNCNCR)