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Details: Category: Region 10; Published: 05 May 2022

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4 May 2022, Cagayan de Oro City – The National Nutrition Council (NNC) X continually visits local government units (LGUs) in the region to conduct technical assistance (TA) and advocate the strengthening of the nutrition program in their localities. Last 26-27 April 2022, NNC X visited the LGUs of Sinacaban, Jimenez and Tudela, Misamis Occidental.

NNC X Nutrition Program Coordinator (NPC) Gladys Mae S. Fernandez together with Nutrition Officers (NOs) Sheena Marie G. Talle and Arlie Joy O. Damiles facilitated the TA where a total of 32 Municipal Nutrition Committee (MNC) members from the aforementioned LGUs attended. Misamis Occidental Provincial Nutrition Action Office (PNAO) led by OIC-PNAO Marichu G. Tijing accompanied NNC X.

NNC X was able to pay a courtesy visit to Mr. Roger Yabo, Executive Secretary of LGU Jimenez, and Mayor Samuel Parojinog of Tudela, Misamis Occidental.

During the TA, NNC X introduced the NNC, and discussed the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition. The municipal nutrition situation based on the Operation Timbang (OPT) Plus Reports 2019-2021 was also presented.

Another highlight of the TA was the advocacy for the creation of a local nutrition office and the hiring of nutrition staff. Sinacaban Municipal Planning and Development Coordinator (MPDC) Gillen Chiong and Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer (MDRRMO) Yvonne Apao committed to lobby the hiring of NO I to their Local Chief Executive (LCE). Likewise, Tudela MNC will advocate the creation of the nutrition office and hiring of a plantilla position for MNAO to LCE and Sangguniang Bayan. Meanwhile, Jimenez MNC shared that the hiring of NO I was included in their 2024 Devolution Transition Plan.

Details: Category: Region 10; Published: 29 April 2022

Infographics PPAN Micronutrient Supplementation Micronutrients are essential to support the body’s important biological processes, and are also needed to prevent serious health problems. Micronutrients include vitamins and minerals, specifically vitamins A, D, E, K, and C as well as the B-complex vitamins— thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), niacin (B3), pyridoxine (B6), folate (B9), and cobalamin (B12). Minerals on the other hand include calcium (Ca), sodium (Na), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), and iodine (I).

In the Philippines, micronutrient deficiencies particularly vitamin A, iron, and iodine deficiency are still of public health concern. According to the Micronutrient Supplementation Manual of Operations released by the Department of Health (DOH), micronutrient deficiencies have considerable impact on economic productivity, growth and national development.

Hence, micronutrient supplementation interventions are delivered through the Micronutrient Supplementation Program (MSP). This program is one of the nutrition-specific programs of the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) 2017-2022, which aims to respond to the micronutrient malnutrition in the country. The program focuses on the provision of pharmaceutically-prepared vitamins and minerals for the treatment and prevention of specific micronutrient deficiencies to complement food intake.

Low birth weight infants, 6-59-month-old children, pregnant women (PW) and lactating women, female adolescents (10-14 years old), and non-pregnant/non-lactating women of reproductive age (15-49 years old) are the population groups prioritized in the MSP. And since the prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies is not the same among the various population groups, the intervention package and delivery system is tailored for specific age, population, and socio-economic groups. Below are the interventions given based on specific age and population:

Details: Category: Region 10; Published: 29 April 2022

12 Nutrition Promotion Program for Behavior Change The Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) 2017-2022 is the country’s blueprint to address the immediate, underlying, and basic causes of malnutrition. It consists of nutrition-specific programs, nutrition-sensitive programs, and enabling programs.

In its Technical Guidance Brief for Effective At-Scale Nutrition Social and Behavior Change Communication, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) acknowledges that all the immediate and underlying causes of malnutrition are behavioral– influenced by the behaviors of individuals and their household members. However, the actions of a variety of other actors have an impact on nutrition. These actors range from healthcare providers and schoolteachers to farmers and other agricultural agents, religious and community leaders to private sector companies and policymakers, all of whom have direct or indirect impact on care and feeding practices, household food security, the household environment, and healthcare services.

Enhancing the nutrition behavior of women, caregivers, family and community members, and those who influence them is the goal of the multi-media nutrition campaign, Nutrition Promotion Program for Behavior Change.

The program includes a set of interventions that systematically combines elements of interpersonal communication, social change and community mobilization activities, mass media, and advocacy to support individuals, families, communities and institutions.

Details: Category: Region 10; Published: 29 April 2022

Infographics TK DSP SMS RS Orientation 19 20 Apr

29 April 2022, Cagayan de Oro City – The National Nutrition Council (NNC) X represented by Provincial Nutrition Focal Point (PNFP) Lizelle Bete, conducted another session of Tutok Kainan Dietary Supplementation Program (TK DSP) and SMS Reporting System orientation to program recipient areas of Lanao del Norte.

Last April 19 to 20, 2022, PNFP Bete visited the municipalities of Magsaysay, Baroy, Matungao, and Tagoloan, Lanao del Norte. NNC X was warmly received by the Municipal Nutrition Action Officers, Punong Barangay, Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNSs), Barangay Health Workers (BHWs), and nutrition workers from the municipalities visited.

During the orientation, PNFP Bete provided program updates, guidelines, and social preparation requirements to target local government unit beneficiaries, with the goal of improving the quality and quantity of food and nutrient intakes to help prevent stunting and wasting in children aged 0 to 23 months.

Details: Category: Region 10; Published: 26 April 2022

2022 10K NSOA Every year, the National Nutrition Council (NNC) Region X airs the radio program “10 Kumainments Nutrition School on-the-Air” or NSOA over select local radio station. It is composed of 12 sessions highlighting the 10 Kumainments, a popular version of the revised Nutritional Guidelines for Filipinos which consists of shorter and simple messages for better recall and understanding.

For this year, the first episode aired last 25 April 2022. The schedule of airing is every Mondays and Wednesdays, from 25 April to 1 June 2022, at 3:00 – 3:30 PM and replays every Tuesdays and Thursdays on the same time. NNC X technical staff will serve as radio anchors for all of the 12 sessions of NSOA. Strong Radio 90.3 FM radio station will air the 12 sessions, with NNC Region X Facebook Page livestreaming each episode.

NNC X will continue its partnership with the Cagayan de Oro City Nutrition Office to identify mothers in partner barangays who will enroll in the program. Since it is a school-on-air, participants registered from 18-22 April 2022 through announcements over the radio, and posting of invitation at the NNC Region X Facebook Page.

NSOA is just like a setting in school where students will enroll, attend the class and will be recognized through a graduation ceremony. In NSOA, Graduation Ceremony will be held to recognize the participants who tuned in and actively participated in the short quizzes after each episode.

This is one of the strategies of NNC to educate and create an interactive environment with people as they are taught on proper nutrition and healthy lifestyle. (NO I Vazamija Therese A. Villasi)

Details: Category: Region 10; Published: 29 April 2022

NDSP Infographics The Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) 2017-2022 aims to address the country's malnutrition problems among children and other population groups.

Under the PPAN 2017-2022, eight (8) nutrition-specific interventions have been identified to address the immediate causes of malnutrition, physical inactivity, poor dietary intake, and diseases. The National Dietary Supplementation Program (NDSP) is one of the identified interventions. The program's primary priority is to supplement the dietary concern of nutritionally vulnerable groups, such as pregnant and lactating women, and infants and young children aged 6-23 months in food insecure households. The program also covers the undernourished children aged 3 to 5 years, and severely wasted Kinder to Grade 6 school children, particularly those from very poor neighborhoods and/or households.

In detail, five projects that fall under this program are as follows:

Project 1: Pregnant and lactating women's Dietary Supplementation Program;

Project 2: Infant and Young Child Dietary Supplementation Program (ages 6-23 months);

Project 3: Dietary Supplementation Program for Children Aged 24-59 months (those enrolled in day care facilities and CDCs, as well as in SNP groups);

Project 4: School-Age Children's Dietary Supplementation Program; and

Project 5: Food processing and manufacturing facilities for the production of food supplements (supplementary/complementary foods) and single micronutrient fortification of rice and other foods.