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- Category: Region 4a
4 March 2014 - The Regional Technical Working Group (RTWG) on Nutrition committed to visit the nutritionally depressed municipality, Jomalig in Quezon during the Special meeting held at the CHD IV-A Building in Quezon City.
Ranking consistently first in terms of high prevalence in malnutrition in the region as well as in the national level for more than a year, the RTWG took the challenge to visit and experience themselves the way of living in the said community.
It was second quarter of last year when the group was able to meet with the Jomalig Municipal Nutrition Committee headed by its Chair, Mayor Rodelo Tena, MNAO Ms. Liza Eyatid, MHO Dr. Rita Ang and other members. During the meeting, several issues were raised which the MNC believe have caused the consistent high prevalence of the municipality and they are as follows: low prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding (34.0%); incapacitated BNS; food insecurity; poor health seeking behavior; poor knowledge on proper health and nutrition practices and; presence of illness such as diarrhea and pneumonia.
Thus, the RTWG planned the visit in the area to provide initial assistance to the community specifically to the families with underweight 0-5 year old children. The following agencies in the region made the following commitments in support to the upcoming activity:
- DOST - provision of water quality testing and food mixes such as Joemix for complementary feeding to children 6-23 months old;
- DA – provision of seeds or seedlings, gardening equipment and training on gardening;
- DOH-CHD - provision of supplementary feeding for two (2) identified priority barangays and assorted drugs worth Php 20, 000.00;
- NNC - provision of trainings on Nutrition Program Management (NPM) and Basic Course for BNS to Nutritionally Depressed Barangays and logistics such as height board
- DepEd – provision of school-based feeding program
- DSWD - Conduct of supplementary feeding program for Day Care Childr
- TESDA - provision of scholarship grant
- BFAR - training on fish and seaweed processing & provision of utensils and dryer (fish & seaweed)
- DOLE - provision of coconut livelihood program (including materials & training)
The said activity of the RTWG will pushed through on 26-28 May 2014.The group is certain that through convergence of efforts and services by various nutrition stakeholders and the Jomalig Municipal Nutrition Committee, malnutrition can be lessen and eventually eradicated.
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- Category: Region 4a
February 6, 2014, Manila- The Provincial and City Nutrition Action Officers (P/CNAOs) of CALABARZON together with the Regional Technical Working Group (RTWG) convene for their First Quarter 2014 Joint Meeting. The meeting tackled a number of new inter-agency interventions scheduled for implementation in 2014 such as Search for Outstanding Nutrtion Action Officers (NAOs) and Project Orientation on Documentation of Good Practices in the Implementation of RA 10028 or the “Expanded Breastfesding Act”. The meeting also covered a discussion on the progress of regular activities particularly results of Operation Timbang, schedule of MELLPI visits, NAOPA Plans for 2014, RTWG Plans for 2014 and Updates from the National Nutrition Council of Region IV-A.
The Joint Meeting of PCNAOs and RTWG intended to create open and interactive discussions between the two clusters. Some issues on monitoring and evaluation such as the use of old tools by some of the barangays were resolved and clarified during the meeting.
The joint meeting was also attended by some officers of the Communicator’s Network for Nutrition in Region IV-A (CNN-IVA). CNN-IVA was established by NNC-R-IVA in 2012 to highlight and strengthen media’s role in public nutrition education and nutrition advocacy.
The meeting was presided by Regional Nutrtition Program Coordinator Carina Z. Santiago.
