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TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan – Maria Gisela Lonzaga, acting National Nutrition Council Nutrition Program Coordinator has called on residents of Quirino province to address malnutrition after the latter recorded the highest and most number of stunting cases in the region.
Lonzaga made the call during the recent Local Government Units Mobilization Forum on Nutrition held in the province.
“Invest in nutrition. Let us work together to achieve a healthy and productive Quirinians,” she told more than a hundred officials from the local government units, provincial line agencies, Department of Education and a state university.
The province in a recent study has been identified as one of the 36 priority provinces in the country for LGU mobilization for nutrition improvement.
Governor Junie Cua likewise reiterated the call of NNC and asked stakeholders in the province to support nutrition programs of the provincial government and the former to reduce cases of stunting in his province.
Read more: NNC REITERATES CALL AGAINST MALNUTRITION IN QUIRINO
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One of the strategies of the Philippine Plan of Action 2017-2022 (PPAN) is the Local Government Unit (LGU) Mobilization which involves capacity building, mentoring of LGUs on nutrition program management to enable LGUs plan, implement, coordinate, and monitor and evaluate effective nutrition programs.
The National Nutrition Council, Region II organized a 5-day training on Nutrition Program Management (NPM) on 11-15 September 2017 at New Rajah Soliman Hotel and Restaurant in Bokawkan, Baguio City. The training was for 39 provincial/city and municipal nutrition workers to harness their knowledge, attitude and skills to match their dedication for nutrition improvement in their respective localities.
Read more: Harnessing Nutrition Workers’ Knowledge and Skills
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he National Nutrition Council Region 02 conducted a five day training on the Training of Trainers on Basic Course for Barangay Nutrition Scholars last August 21 – 25, 2017 at Diocita’s Hotel Santiago City, Isabela.
The training was attended by 34 participants, representatives coming from different provinces and municipalities of Region 02. The training course targets the Provincial/City/Municipal Nutrition Action Officers (P/C/MNAOs), nutritionist-dietitians, and other technical staff who are designated to train the BNSs to have common basic knowledge and skills as well as core values and traits that are necessary for them to perform their roles and functions effectively.
Ms. Maria Gisela M. Lonzaga, OIC Nutrition Program Coordinator, together with Ms. Luningning Rhodes, Nutrition Officer IV of PHO Quirino, Ms. Tina Ramilloza, Nutrition Officer I of Diffun Quirino, Ms. Rosario Ablaza, City Nutrition Program Coordinator of Santiago City, Mr. John Nestor Ballad, Nutrition Officer II of NNC R02 were the trainers of the said activity.
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The Provincial Government, through the Nutrition Division of the Office of the Governor, collaborates with SN Aboitiz Power-Magat, Inc. for the livelihood and training of the Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Team in the fifteen municipalities of the province.
SN Aboitiz will be giving P600,000.00 for the livelihood projects of the 15 municipal federations after a refresher training for the enhancement of IYCF Team been conducted. The IYCF Team; which is composed mostly of Barangay Nutrition Scholars, Health Workers, midwives and mother leaders; is set to start the training on October and November at the Nueva Vizcaya State University, Bayombong.
The PLGU, headed by Governor Carlos M. Padilla, will give P100,000.00 for the organizational management structure development of the IYCF Team, and P300,000.00 for training and capacity building from the Department of Health-Center for Health Development.
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Like your ordinary house, Balay Ni Ifan continuous to build extensions for itself.
But Balay Ni Ifan is not actually a house. It is how the National Nutrition Council in Region 2 calls its nutrition media advocacy group whose original ‘family’ members are composed of active tri-media personalities who find nutrition information as interesting and as complex as what they churn in daily in their respective media outlets.
‘Ifan’ is the Ibanag equivalent of Juan, as in Juan Dela Cruz who represents the entire Filipino people. The name of the group symbolizes a typical house where the Filipino icon, the Bahay Kubo (nipa hut) teems with all sorts of vegetables which has nurtured him all these years.
“ It was our answer to then PGMA’s Accelerated Hunger Mitigation Program (AHMP) to Promote Good Nutrition in Cagayan Valley,” Ma. Gizela Lonzaga, NNC region 2 officer-in-charge, said.
While it was a task force, it is likewise a strategy and a battle cry designed and conceptualized by the media themselves in a two-day workshop called for by the agency. Through radio, television, print and other venues, the media wanted to saturate all sectors in the region. However, due to the ethnicity of Cagayan Valley, the various provinces created a name for themselves for identity purposes.
Balay Ni Ifan, based in Tuguegarao City as the regional center, became Haybol Ni Juan in Santiago City, Balay Ni Angkuan in Quirino and Tribu Viscayano for Nueva Viscaya, all carrying the identity of that ‘nipa hut so very small’ where Johnny lives.
How the concept was called was likewise transported from its original Ibanag mother tongue ‘Ta Balay Ni Ifan, Bisin Mafugaddan” into “ Diay Balay Ni Juan, Bisin Malappadan” for the Ilocano audience while it became ‘Sa Bahay ni Juan, Gutom Mapipigilan’ for the Pilipino advocates. All said, it simply means that at the house of John, hunger can be mitigated.
“The task force virtually unified all nutrition advocacy programs and projects for the region in one roof,” Lonzaga said.
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“Challenge accepted as priority area of region 02 in the implementation of PPAN 2017-2022,” says Honorable Junie E. Cua, governor and provincial nutrition committee chair- Province of Quirino, as he signed the the pledge of commitment on the Reduction/Elimination of Malnutrition in the province of Quirino during the Local Government Units Mobilization Forum on Nutrition on 31 August at DISADECO Function Hall, Diffun, Quirino.
The LGUs Mobilization forum on nutrition aims to strengthen and to encourage local leaders to invest more on nutrition programs and projects to combat malnutrition in the country. The National Nutrition Council has identified the top 36 priority areas, one of which is Quirino province, in the implementation of Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition 2017-2022, country’s blueprint in nutrition.
The province was chosen because of its high prevalence of stunting, a child is short for his age and an irrevocable type of malnutrition, as reported in the Department of Science and Technology- Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI) 2015 National Nutrition Survey. The province also yielded an increase in its overweight and obesity prevalence causing it to experience double burden of malnutrition.
