TUGUEGARAO CITY, Oct 29 - After the tedious and long process of evaluation of the regional search for outstanding Local Government Unit nutrition program implementers, the regional nutrition evaluation team has proclaimed Nueva Vizcaya as the outstanding province for this year.
Rhodora Maestre, nutrition program coordinator said Cauayan City successfully snatched the award for the city category and Ivana, Batanes landed first for the municipality category, followed by Jones, Isabela; Aparri, Cagayan; Sta Fe, Nueva Vizcaya; and Diffun, Quirino.

Maestre said the LGU contenders for this year have improved a lot as they garnered above 90 percent of their consolidated scores.

She said the evaluating team observed that most of the LGUs have introduced innovations and sustained best practices in eradicating malnutrition problems within their areas of responsibility.

“We hope that they will continue striving for the best to totally eradicate malnutrition problems. We also hope that these success stories will inspire other LGUs to improve their nutrition program implementation within their areas to resolve nutrition and health problems in the region,” Maestre.

The awardees will be recognized on November 15, 2013 in the regional awarding ceremonies tentatively scheduled in Cauayan City, Isabela.

On the other hand, region 2 has also snatched three national awards to include Lallo, Cagayan as Consistent Regional Winner on Nutrition (CROWN) – second maintenance award, Quirino, Province for its first maintenance award (CROWN) and the CROWN award for Cauayan City.

Maestre said the three LGUs will be recognized in the national awarding ceremony on November 5, 2014 at the Philippine International Convention Center, Pasay City to be graced by His Excellency Benigno Aquino III as invited guest of honor and speaker.