National Capital Region

Details: Category: Region NCR; Published: 30 March 2018

mellpi visits The “MELLPI season” has officially started in Metro Manila. The inter-agency Regional Nutrition Evaluation Team (RNET) started this year’s MELLPI by visiting the cities of Taguig and Pasig on March 21 and 22, respectively. The MELLPI will cover all the 17 cities and municipality in NCR and is expected to last until May 11, 2018.

MELLPI stands for Monitoring and Evaluation of Local Level Plan Implementation. It is an annual monitoring and evaluation activity of the National Nutrition Council (NNC) to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of the planning and management of local nutrition programs anchored on the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN). It is also an opportunity to advocate for support for the PPAN among local chief executives and members of the local nutrition committees (LNCs).

Details: Category: Region NCR; Published: 30 March 2018

RPAN workshop edited The Regional Technical Working Group of the National Capital Region (NCR-RTWG), with the assistance of the National RPAN Planning Team of the National Nutrition Council, formulated the results-based Regional Plan of Action for Nutrition (RPAN) 2019-2022 during the three-day planning workshop held on March 14-16, 2018 at St. Giles Hotel in Makati City. The inter-agency RTWG serves as the Regional Planning Core Team.

The formulation of the RPAN is a strategy to fully operationalize the PPAN at the region. The RPAN is a plan that commits the member agencies of the Regional Nutrition Committee (RNC) to action with corresponding budgetary allocation to address the priority nutrition problems in the region.

Details: Category: Region NCR; Published: 27 February 2018

technical assistance pic To prepare the city of Taguig for their bid to the 2^nd Year Consistent Regional Outstanding Winner in Nutrition (CROWN) Maintenance Award, the National Nutrition Council at the National Capital Region visited the city on February 9 and 26, 2018 to conduct technical assistance to the city nutrition secretariat.

The NNC-NCR team, composed of all technical staff headed by Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator Milagros Elisa V. Federizo, conducted a pre-evaluation of the accomplishments of Taguig City’s nutrition programs using the Monitoring and Evaluation of Local Level Plan Implementation (MELLPI) tool. The team also provided suggestions and recommendations on how to improve documentation reports of activities and checked the barangay nutrition action plans of Taguig City’s 28 barangays.

Details: Category: Region NCR; Published: 27 March 2018

BNS TE and TB with caption The officers and board members of the Federation of Barangay Nutrition Scholar (BNS) of NCR together with Nutrition Program Coordinator Mila Federizo and Nutrition Officer I Bea Menorca of the National Nutrition Council - NCR went to the Municipalities of Talavera and General Tinio, Nueva Ecija for their annual Technical Exchange and Team Building held on February 28 to March 2, 2018.

The Municipality of Talavera was chosen as the venue for this year’s activity to learn from BNS Thelma Esteban of Barangay Bugtong na Buli who is one of the finalists in the 2016 Search for the National Outstanding BNS. Talavera was also hailed as the outstanding municipality in the region in 2015 by the National Nutrition Council Region III.

Details: Category: Region NCR; Published: 27 February 2018

CDNPC HMO pic Health is wealth. Health is the most important thing in every person’s life. We function properly and become more productive in our everyday activities when we are healthy. However, many Filipinos are concerned of the high cost of medical care in the country. Hospital and medical consultation fees may become too expensive without health insurance.

Cognizant of this problem, the previous set of officers of the City/District Nutrition Program Coordinators (C/DNPC) Association led by ex-officio Ms. Eileen Guevara started planning for the members to have health card from a reputable health maintenance organization (HMO) in 2017. Since many of the nutritionists in the seventeen (17) local government units in NCR are not getting any younger, having a health card to support their health needs is essential.

The new set of officers of the C/DNPC Association under the leadership of President Femilina Tuazon plans to pursue this project in 2018 and facilitate enrollment of its members to an HMO for a health card. This will promote health and overall wellness of the members as well as their dependents. It also aims to encourage the members to seek regular medical check-ups not just for treatment but more so, to prevent the development of diseases.

Details: Category: Region NCR; Published: 15 March 2018

makati The city government of Makati regards children as their “richest human resource” and providing them the right nutrition is a good investment in the future of the city. With this in mind, the City Nutrition Committee (CNC) strives to improve the nutritional status of children by planning and implementing an integrated nutrition program based on the priority actions of the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN).

Cognizant of the increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity not only in the city but in the entire region, the CNC decided to put emphasis on improving the dietary practices of children and their families. The CNC implements a program to prevent and control overweight and obesity in all public elementary schools in the city. Prior to its implementation, the teachers and nurses were trained on the program components and in assessing the nutritional status of school children. The school children are engaged in Larong Pinoy to make them physically active. They are also taught how to eat healthy and practice healthy lifestyle.