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LNAP June 2022Butuan City- Six local government units attended the planning workshop on integrating nutrition programs, projects and activities in the local development plans on 27-29 June 2022 at Almont Beach Resort, Surigao City.

The second batch of LGUs are from the municipalities of Malimono, Tagana-an, Gigaquit, Socorro, Surigao City in Surigao del Norte and the municipality of San Agustin in the Province of Surigao del Sur.

Aimed at crafting the 2023-2025 local nutrition action plan (LNAP), the nutrition planning core team identified strategies and interventions that will be implemented in their local government units.

Dr. Leonard Abraham, the Municipal Health Officer of Malimono, expressed his appreciation for inviting their team to the workshop. He mentioned that this was his first time to join such planning workshop on nutrition integration.
On the other hand, Mr. Rico Navarro, the Municipal Budget Officer of Tagana-an shared that new terms were learned during the workshop and he assured of helping the nutrition office to integrate activities under the first 1,000 days program.

The planning workshop is under the local government unit mobilization strategy which provides technical inputs to scale up local nutrition actions and budgets aligned in the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN). #JAOPortillas