Local Nutrition Early Warning System (LNEWS) in Region 6 now includes Bago City and Sagay City after their confirmation during the consultative workshops held in each city on August 2 and August 3, respectively.

Members of the City Nutrition Committees of Bago and Sagay participated in the consultative workshops, led by NNC staff including NPC Nona Tad-y, NOII Alona Teo, NOII Sheryl Sedantes and NOI Ritzel Joy Daduya.

LNEWS Core Groups of each city attended the 2-day City-level training at Atrium Hotel in Manila last August 16-17, 2017. The upcoming activities will be the Household Data Collectors Training which is yet to be scheduled by NNC Regional Office 6.

Five sentinel barangays were chosen to be monitored in each city. For Bago City, the sentinel barangays are: Lag-asan, Ma-ao, Don Jorge L. Araneta, Poblacion and Taloc. For Sagay City: Old Sagay, Paraiso, Bato, Vito and Poblacion II.

Last 2016, La Carlota City and Passi City were chosen to be the areas covered by LNEWS. At the moment, both cities are using LNEWS as a planning tool to prevent impending nutrition problems using the indicators of food insecurity.

The LNEWS is a component of the Philippine Food and Nutrition Surveillance System (PFNSS) intended to enable LGUs to take timely nutrition action through early detection of a worsening nutrition situation based on the monitoring of nutrition and nutrition-related indicators.