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Cotabato City. The Bangsamoro Regional Nutrition Committee concluded this year’s Nutrition Month on August 03, 2021 at Shariff Kabunsuan Cultural Complex ,Bangsamoro Goverment Center, Cotabato City via blended platform.
The event was attended by the RNC member agencies, Provincial Health and Nutrition Offices, School Health and Nutrition Division of the Ministry of Basic Higher and Technical Education and development partners.
National Nutrition Council Assistant Secretary and Executive Director Dr. Azucena M. Dayanghirang, emphasized the region needs to scale up its nutrition intervention through engagement with Local Government Units and other stake holders to combat malnutrition.
The highlights of this year's culmination program includes the messages from the RNC Chairperson and Vice-Chairpersons expressing their full support and commitment in integrating nutrition programs and activities in the ministries respective mandates and goals.
Read more: RNC culminates 47th Nutrition Month with Remarkable End
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Cotabato City. The Bangsamoro Regional Nutrition Committee headed by the Office of Chief Minister and National Nutrition Council BARMM begins the 47th Nutrition Month with a Kick-off Motorcade on July 5, 2021. This year's Nutrition Month campaign aims to emphasize the importance of First 1000 days and raise awareness on issues and concerns, encourage various stakeholders to participate and engage in nutrition related activities.
From the Bangsamoro Government quadrangle, taking the main streets of Cotabato City in a loop, Dr. Sinolinding Jr., the region's Nutrition Head led the 30 car convoy representing various ministries and agencies that comprise the Regional Nutrition Committee. Participants proudly displayed their 47th Nutrition Month shirts, masks, balloon, flags and banners of their respective offices.
Read more: Nutrition Committee of BARMM heads 47th Nutrition Month long celebration
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Cotabato City. National Nutrition Council BARMM in collaboration with the Ministry of the Interior and Local Government conducts the First Virtual Forum on Governors' Action: The Fight of Local Government Against Malnutrition on June 14, 2021 via Zoom platform. This forum aims to seek the Provincial Government to prioritize and support nutrition programs, to share the nutrition interventions of the Regional Plan of Action for Nutrition 2020-2022 and to integrate Local Nutrition Action Plan to LGUs Annual Investments Plans.
Provincial Governor Bai Mariam S. Mangudadatu is represented by her Provincial Planning Development Officer, Mr. Nulfarid Ampatuan who shared their experience in their current Supplementation Feeding Program in selected municipalities of Maguindanao.
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The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Chief Minister Ahod “Al-Haj Murad” Ebrahim, initiated the creation and conduct of Project TABANG or Tulong Alay sa Bangsamorong Nangangailangan, to fulfill the Bangsamoro government's pledge to help its constituents in the grassroots and bring the government closer to the people.
The Project TABANG, launched in September 2019, is a humanitarian project created to ease the situation in the Bangsamoro communities through provision of immediate direct services to the Bangsamoro people, particularly those who are living in poverty and affected by calamities and conflicts.
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Cotabato City. The Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE), through its Health and Nutrition Unit, began on May 21, 2021, the delivery of the commodities for the implementation of the School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP) to target school beneficiaries in the different schools division offices across the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region.
The program aims to adhere to the provision of Iron Fortified Rice under RA 11037 to be provided to target beneficiaries every school day using the recommended cycle menu and locally available or indigenous vegetables from school gardens.
In BARMM, the government allocated funding support from its Block Grant to the SBFP for SY 2020-2021, targeting 160,000 school children all over the region for 120 feeding days.
Read more: MBHTE delivers school feeding commodities to target beneficiaries across BARMM
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Cotabato City. The Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Energy (MENRE) launched the Kayod ka Bangsamoro or ‘KKB’ last April 21, 2020, which was created during the growing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the availability and supply of food. The KKB is a livelihood component of the Integrated Bangsamoro Greening Program (IBGP). BARMM Senior Minister and concurrent MENRE Minister Abdulraof A. Macacua, supported the program with the issuance of memorandum on massive food production on forest areas suitable for vegetable gardening and short-term cash crop production.
The Integrated Bangsamoro Greening Program aims to ensure a self-reliant and food-secure region through ‘Kayod ka Bangsamoro’. It encourages massive food production activities such as short-term cash crop and vegetable gardening, small-scale orchard or fruit-bearing trees establishment, and forage planting for livestock. And MENRE encourages establishing ‘survival gardens’ in the backyards of their homes to supplement their family’s source of food. This intervention intends to augment food production and secure good nutrition of every Moro family amidst the pandemic in line with the call of the national government through National Nutrition Council and the Task Force Zero Hunger Tutok Kainan.
Read more: MENRE ensures food secure region through ‘Kayod ka Bangsamoro’
