The National Nutrition Council Region 02 is currently conducting “Online Workshops on Integrating Nutrition in the 2021 Annual Investment Program (AIP) for Local Government Units (LGUs)” as part of its effort to scale up nutrition through ensuring that all Local Nutrition Action Plans (LNAPs) have fund allocations in the approved AIPs of LGUs.
Expected outputs of these workshops include increased recognition of the alarming malnutrition in the country and the importance of investing in nutrition, integration of nutrition in plans and budgets through nutrition integration in AIPs and a re-entry plan to ensure acceptance of the budget proposals. Proposed nutrition programs, projects and activities focused on stunting reduction and addressing other forms of malnutrition through prioritizing the First 1000 Days of Life, Philippine Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition, Dietary Supplementation Programs for pregnant and lactating women and children aged 6-23 months, and strengthening the implementation of nutrition sensitive and enabling programs of the LGUs.
Batch 1 of the workshop was conducted last September 15-18, 2020 via GoogleMeet with participants from the municipalities of Benito Soliven, Cabagan, Santo Tomas, Sta. Maria and Ramon of the province of Isabela and from the municipalities of Lasam and Pamplona of Cagayan Province.
Batch 2 will be conducted on October 6-9, and 12, 2020 and will include 5 municipalities from Isabela Province, 14 municipalities from Cagayan Province, and 1 municipality from Batanes.
Batch 3 will be conducted on October 19-23, 2020 and will include another 5 municipalities from Isabela Province and 10 municipalities from Cagayan Province.
The National Nutrition Council with support from Nutrition International (NI) and UNICEF Technical Assistance providers from Alcanz International LLC had been conducting workshops on integrating nutrition in the local AIPs for the last three years. The activity aims to secure the gains made for nutrition across the LGUs that have undergone the local planning and budgeting workshops in 2019. - EMArcinue
