October 3, 2011- first day of the 4th quarter of the year, the National Nutrition Council Region 10 in close coordination with Dr. Melania U. Untao - PHO and Ms. Maguinda E. Manigsaca, Provincial Nutrition Action Officers of Lanao del Norte (LDN) and Misamis Occidental respectively held a back-to-back meeting with the Provincial/City/Municipal Nutrition Action Officers (P/C/MNAOs) and Provincial Nutrition Committee (PNC) of the aforementioned provinces. The meeting was assembled at the Liga ng Barangay Session Hall, Oroquieta City for the Misamis Occidental group in the morning. Meanwhile, LDN group was held at Macapagal Training Center, Tubod, Lanao del Norte in the afternoon.
The two meetings were intentionally called to talk about the on-going Promotion of Good Nutrition (PGN) trainings on “Infant and Young Child Feeding cum Pabasa sa Nutrisyon” (IYCF-PSN) which is at present being conducted at the municipal and city level by the trained local PGN-IYCF/PSN Trainers/Facilitators in the province. NPC Zenaida T. Tondares and the NAOs discussed the training dates for the remaining batches of PGN-IYCF/PSN training of barangay implementers.
The meeting also discussed the Nutrition Program Management (NPM) Training for PNC and MNAOs tentatively set on 7-11 November 2011 to be facilitated by UPLB as contracted by NNC. Other items discussed were status of CGS Training, orientation and fabrication of height board by municipality and barangay; and ranking of municipalities per CY 2010 OPT results.