Tandag City - Members of the City Nutrition Committee (CNC) of the City of Tandag participated in the formulation of the 2023-2025 City Nutrition Action Plan (CNAP) on 25-26 July at Shacene Pensione House and Restaurant, Tandag City.

In his presentation, City Nutrition Action Officer (CNAO), Dr. Reyveen John Geli shared that a budget has been proposed for 2023 comparable to the 2022 budget which 8 million. The 2023 budget is strengthened to focus on the first 1,000 days program package for mothers and children in every barangay.

Mayor Roxanne Pimentel included nutrition activities as priority agenda number 3: Right Access to Health Care and Nutrition for the people of Tandag.

Geared towards better maternal nutrition and infant young child practices, the City Nutrition Committee created the K-ISA (Kinabuhi sa Isa Ka Libong Adlaw), a first 1,000 days program in Tandag City.

The budget for 2023 focused to implement the K-ISA program in 21 barangays through pregnancy tracking, prenatal, post-natal, promotion of breastfeeding, complementary feeding for mothers and children, immunization, family planning, advocacy and other related services.


The planning workshop was able to align the programs, projects and activities (PPAs) as Dr. Nino Archie Labordo of NNC Caraga provided input on the new face of the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) 2023-2028.

In the new nutrition plan, PPAs shall be based on the human life stages from conception up to the maturity of an individual. However, it shall still remain to be a multi-sectoral and multi-level approach covering three-fold areas of intervention based on the Lancet Framework: nutrition specific programs, nutrition sensitive programs and enabling environment programs.

In the following years, the City of Tandag aimed to sustain the reduced malnutrition prevalence below the World Health Organization (WHO) cutoff. #NASLabordo