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CITY OF ILAGAN, ISABELA----- Armed with four decades of public health and nutrition experience, Ms. Clavelina Tolbe, District Nutrition Program Coordinator (DNPC)- Province of Quirino, edged another finalist to bring home the 2019 Regional Outstanding DNPC in the region.
DNPC Tolbe has been working with the Local Nutrition Committees of the local government units as early as the 80’s. Her presence in the 2019 LNC’s accomplishments can be felt. One can notice her presence in mostly of the documents and reports presented to the Regional Nutrition Evaluation Team (RNET) Region 02.
Read more: When #AgeDoesn't Matter in public health, nutrition services
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CITY OF ILAGAN, ISABELA---- Dr. Edwin Galapon, Provincial Health Officer (PHO) and Provincial Nutrition Action Officer (PNAO)-Province of Nueva Vizcaya, bagged the Regional Outstanding PNAO.
The Regional Nutrition Evaluation Team (RNET) Region 02 during the deliberation has unanimously declared Dr. Galapon as Regional Outstanding PNAO based on the results of Monitoring and Evaluation of Local Level Plan Implementation Protocol (MELLPI Pro), and interview score conducted by the team.
Annually, the MELLPI is conducted by an interagency nutrition evaluation team from the national to provincial/ city/municipal levels to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of local nutrition program management and implementation.
In 2019, the National and Regional Evaluation Team launched the use of the enhanced version of MELLPI called MELLPI Pro. The MELLPI Pro is used to monitor and evaluate performance of local government units at all levels and local nutrition focal points like the Barangay Nutrition Scholars, Nutrition Action Officers and District/City /Municipal Nutrition Program Coordinators.
The MELLPI PRO for Local Nutrition Focal Points assesses the performance of frontline nutrition workers in carrying out their core functions in line with delivering nutrition services in the locality. Performance is defined along eight management dimensions: P1. Coordination; P2. Advocacy; P3. Planning; P4. Implementation; P5. Monitoring and evaluation; P6. Resource generation; P7. Documentation and record keeping and P8. Capacity building.
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CITY OF ILAGAN, ISABELA----- Dr. Mila Villar, youngest Provincial Nutrition Action Officers in service, sets record as she is hailed as finalist for the 2019 most outstanding PNAO in the region.
She maybe the youngest PNAO in service, however her nine (9) years dedicated service as Municipal Nutrition Action Officer (MNAO) of Cabarroguis, Quirino paved way to her knowledge, skills, strengths and dedication to serve as PNAO of the Province of Quirino.
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CITY OF ILAGAN, ISABELA----- Ms. Luzviminda Ragpa, District Nutrition Program Coordinator (DNPC)- Province of Nueva Vizcaya, hailed as 2019 Regional Outstanding DNPC Regional finalist as evaluated by Regional Nutrition Evaluation Team (RNET) region 02.
As DNPC, her main task is to supervise Barangay Nutrition Scholars. They also organize and conduct appropriate trainings for them. In addition, they also assist the Local Nutrition Action Officers in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of of nutrition programs in the locality.
Read more: DNPC Ragpa is 2019 Regional Outstanding DNPC Regional Finalist
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Republic of the Philippines
Department of Health
NATIONAL NUTRITION COUNCIL
INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE1
AZUCENA M. DAYANGHIRANG, MD, MCH, CESO III
Assistant Secretary and Executive Director
National Nutrition Council
Courtesies…
To Honorable Cabinet Secretary Atty. Karlo Alexei Nograles, DOH-Region II Regional Director and Regional Nutrition Committee Chair Dr. Rio Magpantay, RNC Vice Chair Director Jonathan Paul Leusen and other members of the RNC, our resource speakers Ms. Luz Malillin, Atty. Racquel Reyes-Aglaua, and Professor Shelley Pascual; to all the distinguished guests and nutrition partners from the academe, business, civil society organizations, and the media groups. A pleasant morning to everyone. I would like to thank you all for sharing your precious time to grace us on this special day for nutrition at Cagayan Valley. I am extending my big congratulations to NNC Region 2, led by Nutrition Director Gisela Lonzaga, for putting together this orientation.
The Scaling Up Nutrition or SUN Movement was borne out of a recognition of the rising problem of undernutrition globally and the failure of the international system to deal with this problem effectively. The fragmented and dysfunctional actions among various stakeholders to address the issue is not making any difference. Thus, the birth of a global movement calls for unity among multiple stakeholders – the government, civil society organizations, academe, research, business sector, donor, development partners, and the United Nations – for a collective effort to fight malnutrition worldwide.
Even before COVID-19 pandemic, the world is already experiencing a more silent pandemic: malnutrition. But with the unprecedented global, social and economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is threatening to undo decades worth of hard work in addressing hunger and malnutrition.
Our current data revealed that nearly one in every three children under five years old is already stunted or too short for their age or bansot based on the results of the 2019 Expanded National Nutrition Survey conducted by the DOST-Food and Nutrition Research Institute. Contrary to common knowledge, stunting among children is not just being short, and neither is it an inherited trait from parents. Malnourished pregnant women are likely to give birth to a stunted child due to failure to meet the additional weight and nutritional requirements because of the demands of the growing fetus. Stunting compromises children’s physical and mental development, which, if not addressed by age two years, contributes to poor school performance, poor immunity, and poor work productivity, eventually affecting our human capital development. While this figure may sound intimidating, there is already a significant reduction noted compared to the survey results at the national level in 2015. We have been making progress. However, the progress has been too slow to achieve the nutrition targets that we have set. Now more than ever, the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to reduced access to essential nutrition services and has disrupted the food systems, among others. The nutritional impacts of the COVID-19 crisis could have massive, long-term productivity consequences that could extend to future generations. Hence, immediate actions are needed to prevent this from happening.
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Tutok Kainan Dietary Supplementation for nutritionally-at-risk (NAR) pregnant women in Cagayan and Isabela Provinces kicked-off in the first quarter of 2020. With almost a year of coordination and implementation, a lot had been accomplished including provision of enhanced nutribuns, lipid-base nutrient supplement-small quantity (LNS-SQ) and iron-fortified rice among 1,193 beneficiaries in partnership with local nutrition committees.
Ms. Chieberly Secreto, ECCD-F1K Provincial Nutrition Focal Point (PNFP) had the opportunity to interview several of the program beneficiaries in Dodan and Gaddang Aparri, Cagayan as part of her monitoring activities. Barangay Nutrition Scholar (BNS) Shara Perpinian and BNS Jona Marciana M. Magara assisted her during the activity.
