The awarding ceremony was organized and spearheaded by members of the Regional Nutrition Evaluation Team (RNET). The RNET holds this annually to acknowledge individuals, groups and companies that demonstrate system-changing solutions that expand and improve nutrition in undernourished communities and wider population segments.
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The NNC Management Team composing of Nutrition Program Coordinators from the 16 regions in the country, the Chiefs of Divisions of the NNC Central Office and headed by its very own Executive Director Assistant Secretary for Health Maria Bernardita T. Flores flew in to Zamboanga City to hold its 3 days management conference at the Lantaka Hotel on 22-24 May 2013.
Two full days of the conference enabled the team to discuss and resolve issues pertaining the various concerns on nutrition policy and plan development, monitoring and evaluation, promotion of good nutrition and in particular to handle more efficiently and effectively the resources intended for the projects and activities that must be carried out to assist Local Government Units in the nutrition program management.
Read more: NNC Regional Office IX hosted the 2nd Management Conference (MANCON) in Zamboanga City
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One billion people in the world suffer from chronic hunger and two thirds of them live in Asia. This is a crisis with devastating and far reaching effects, which is robbing millions of children of their full potential growth and development. To help fight the widespread and growing problem of under-nutrition in Southeast and South Asia, the European Union (EU) and the United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have launched the Maternal and Young Child Nutrition Security Initiative in Asia (MYCNSIA) to improve nutrition security among women and young children in the region.
The MYCNSIA project aims to decrease stunting among children from two years and below by 5% points, decrease anemia rates by ? among infants and young children age 6-23 months and among the pregnant women. The programme has also identified 4 output pillars (1) up-stream policy and nutrition security awareness; (2) capacity strengthening/ development; (3) data analysis and knowledge sharing; and (4) scaling up nutrition to achieve its goals and objectives.
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The City Nutrition Committee has strengthened its effort to improve the nutrition situation of families particularly for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) victims of the 2013 Zamboanga Siege who have now been transferred to transitory sites. One of the efforts put in place is the training of the Barangay Nutrition Committees in the eight host barangays where the eleven transitory sites are located to ensure that the nutrition services needed by these people are considered in the Barangay Nutrition Action Plan.
The Action Contre La Faim (ACF International or Action Against Hunger) a global humanitarian organization committed to ending world hunger, and which has worked with the city from the early stage of the emergency had seen the need to support the communities in building the capacity of the Barangay Nutrition Committees(BNC) to manage an efficient and effective nutrition program that will be inclusive of the needs of the permanent barangay residents and the IDPs as well.
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Considering all the activities on MDGF-2030 projects were already accomplished and will be formally closed its operation by 18 April 2013, the Program Management Unit conducted a Post-Program Implementation Review (PIR) in Region IX to document program success including the efficacy of the processes involve and lessons learned at the region, held at Lantaka Hotel, Zamboanga City on 22-23 March 2013.
It was attended by partners/implementers of the JP areas Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga City, and the National and Regional Technical Working Group (N/RTWG) members.
Read more: MDG-F 2030 Post-Program Implementation Review in Region 9
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The world has made strides in reducing the prevalence of malnutrition, yet approximately one billion people are still malnourished, and 25,000 people die every day from hunger and related causes. There are key individuals that identify and apply new approaches that break the mold. Truly, these people who lead to take a step and undertook effective and efficient procedures and services are deserving to receive rewards and honors due them.
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ZAMBOANGA CITY, Sept. 16 to orient Public Information Officers (IOs) and Human Resource Officers of the essentials of Exclusive Breastfeeding and be a pool of advocates on breastfeeding, the National Nutrition Council (NNC) conducted today a whole day “Seminar for Breastfeeding Advocates in the Workplace.” NNC Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator Maria Del Pilar Pamela Tarroza said the seminar hopes to seek the commitment of the participants to help in the promotion of exclusive breastfeeding in the workplace as breastfeeding practice in the country has deteriorated as shown in the results of the 7th National Nutrition Survey conducted by the Department of Science and Technology-Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI).
“The National Nutrition survey result revealed that among infants zero to five (0-5) months old, only 36 out of every 100 were exclusively breastfeed; 37 of every 100 were breastfed and at the same time given complementary food and 27 of every 100 infants were given formula milk and other food,” NPC Tarroza was quoted as saying. The Nutrition Program Coordinator affirmed two common factors as contributory to the cessation of breastfeeding or non-exclusive breastfeeding of mothers which include “mothers’ perception that she has no or inadequate or very little amount of breast milk,” she said. Tarroza added, “mothers’ returning to work within four to eight weeks after delivery into a work environment that is not conducive to continue breastfeeding or the absence of a lactation room in the workplace” asnumber two factor why the withdrawal of mothers form breastfeeding their child.
Read more: Gov’t IOs, HR officers as breastfeeding advocates in the Workplace
