Central Luzon Regional Development Council (RDC) III adopts the Central Luzon Regional Plan of Action for Nutrition (RPAN), 2019-2022 during the 11th Regular Full Council Meeting of the Central Luzon RDC III held on 22 March 2019 at Bakasyunan Resort and Conference Center, Iba, Zambales.
Ms. Ana Maria B. Rosaldo, Nutrition Program Coordinator of National Nutrition Council-Region III, presented the Central Luzon RPAN 2017-2022, along with the current nutrition situation of the country and of Central Luzon based on the results of the National Nutrition Survey of the Food and Nutrition Research Institute of the DOST in 2013 and 2015.
The RDC, having recognized that the Province of Aurora is faced with the greatest challenge on stunting and with Central Luzon having the highest rate of overweight under-five children in the country at 6.1%, unanimously approved the adoption of the Central Luzon RPAN 2019-2022 through 15th RDC III Resolution No. 03-30-2019. http://www.nnc.gov.ph/index.php/component/phocadownload/file/1733-rdc-adopting-the-central-luzon-regional-plan-of-action-for-nutrition.html. The RDC III is led by Angeles City Mayor Edgardo D. Pamintuan and RDC Vice Chair and NEDA III Regional Director Leon M. Dacanay, Jr., with NEDA III Assistant Regional Director EnP Agustin C. Mendoza as the RDC III Secretary.
The Central Luzon RPAN, 2019-2022 is one of the strategies, formulated through a participatory, inter-sectoral and multi-level process, that aims to fully operationalize the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN), 2017-2022. PPAN is the country’s blueprint in achieving improved nutrition and serves as the framework for nutrition action.
The Central Luzon RPAN contains key elements expected to contribute to the attainment of the PPAN, 2017-2022 national goals and targets. These key elements include the following:
1. Focus on the first 1000 days of life. The first 1000 days of life refer to the period of pregnancy up to the first
two years of the child.
2. Complementation of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programs. The RPAN 201-2022, in full
recognition of the nutritional problems and its dimensions, identified a mix of interventions appropriate for
the region consisting of three distinct but complementing types of programs such as nutrition-specific,
nutrition-sensitive, and enabling management programs as identified in the PPAN program framework.
3. Intensified mobilization of local government units. Mobilization of LGUs will aim to transform low-intensity
nutrition programs to those that will deliver targeted nutritional outcomes.
4. Reaching geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas (GIDAs) and communities of indigenous
peoples.
5. Complementation of actions of national, sub-national and local governments. As LGUs are charged with
the delivery of services, including those related to nutrition, the national and sub-national government
creates the enabling environment through appropriate policies and continuous capacity building of various
stakeholders.
On 9 January 2019, the Central Luzon Regional Nutrition Committee (RNC) approved the RPAN 2017-2022 and agreed to initiate efforts leading to the implementation of its programs, projects and activities. RNC Resolution No. 1 Series 2019 on the Adoption of the Central Luzon RPAN 2017-2022 can be viewed from the NNC website and by clicking this link. http://www.nnc.gov.ph/index.php/component/phocadownload/file/1565-rnc-resolution-no-1-adopting-the-central-luzon-regional-plan-of-action-for-nutrition-2019-2022.html
For more information about the PPAN, 2017-2022 and the Central Luzon RPAN, 2019-2022, please get in touch with the NNC-Region III Secretariat at 0921.565.2830.
Author: Ana Maria B. Rosaldo
