BUTUAN City – Provincial Nutrition Office (PNO) of the Agusan del Norte Province organized and conducted a three-day Nutrition Program Management (NPM) Training on 8-10 November 2021 at the Gazebo Pools and Restaurant, Cabadbaran City, Agusan del Norte.

Participated in by the members of the Provincial Nutrition Committee, some Municipal Nutrition Action Officers and their Barangay Nutrition Scholars. The training discussed topics on Legal Basis for Nutrition Actions, Principles, Characteristics and Uses of Nutrition Program Management, Local Nutrition Committee Functionality, Formulation of Nutrition Situation Analysis, Monitoring and Evaluation, MELLPI Pro, and the Mandanas Garcia Supreme Court Ruling.

In her welcome message, Division Chief of the Nutrition and Population Division of Agusan del Norte Province, Ms. Alfie Semonette Pabillore reminded the participants that nutrition related programs projects and activities should be packaged along with other government plans and services.

Thus, form part of the training outputs is the updated local nutrition situation, identified priority nutrition interventions and workplan budgets.

The planning-workshop concluded with the workplan presentation wherein OIC NPC Dr. Nino Archie Labordo provided feedback giving tips on how to effectively and efficiently identify nutrition related PPAs and the over-all management of nutrition program implementation.

MNAO Belen Estrosos of the Municipality of Santiago shared that she was thankful for the activity because of the new knowledge she gained in NPM and in the updating of the LNAP. She also wished that the training be cascaded to the barangay level so that the Barangay Nutrition Committee’s will be capacitated.

The three-day NPM was facilitated by the technical staff of the National Nutrition Council Caraga led by OIC NPC Dr. Labordo together with Senior Nutrition Officer Leah Vina P. Vargas and Nutrition Officers Ivy Sheryl C. Sablas, Aldrin S. Atienza and Raphael P. Ochavo. #ASAtienza/NASlabordo