The City Nutrition Committee (CNC) of Caloocan had their meeting on 27 May 2014 with foremost objective of revitalizing and expanding its membership.  This is an offshoot of the Monitoring and Evaluation of Local Level Plan Implementation (MELLPI) conducted recently by the Regional Nutrition Evaluation Team (RNET) in the city wherein one of the recommendations is to reorganize the CNC and make it fully functional.

Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator Milagros Elisa V. Federizo explained during the meeting the importance of having an organized and functional CNC, their roles and functions and what they can do to improve the city’s nutrition situation using the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) framework. 

City Nutrition Action Officer (CNAO) Dr. Maybelle P. Sison presided the meeting on behalf of Mayor and CNC Chair Oscar Malapitan.  Assisting her at the meeting was the nutrition secretariat led by Ms. Maria Teresa G. Abando. The meeting was well-attended by representatives from various local offices and organizations in the city. 

An important output of the meeting is the draft Executive Order (EO) reconstituting and expanding the composition of the CNC including the creation of a Nutrition Cluster as a sub-committee of the CNC. The draft EO will be submitted to Mayor and CNC Chair Malapitan for his approval and signature. Another priority action identified by the CNC is advocating among all barangay captains the deployment of at least one Barangay Nutrition Scholar in all the 188 barangays of Caloocan City.