National Nutrition Council Region VI provided technical assistance to the Province of Guimaras and its five municipalities (Buenavista, Jordan, Nueva Valencia, San Lorenzo, and Sibunag) to formulate their Provincial/Municipal Nutrition Action Plan. The activity is a 3-day workshop conducted at the Guimaras PHO Conference Room on June 15-17, 2022. RNPC Reginaldo T. Guillen, NO III Sheryl C. Sedantes, and NOI Roselle Eve Ferrer from NNC RVI served as the resource persons and assisted in the workshop.
The Formulation of the Local Nutrition Action Plan (LNAP) is part of the over-all LGU mobilization strategy in scaling up nutrition in the remaining years of PPAN implementation. The local government units or their local nutrition committee are now formulating the LNAP for the year 2023 – 2025. The overall goal of the mobilization effort is to contribute to the achievement of the nutrition outcomes targeted by PPAN. The intermediate outcome is in the number of LGUs implementing quality nutrition programs, and to facilitate this, NNC hopes to output local nutrition action plans that are integrated in the comprehensive development plan, and the local development investment plan. Another output is mobilized local chief executives or those who appreciate the importance of investing in nutrition programs, and provide leadership in nutrition action.
To achieve these outcomes and outputs, four components will be implemented: Component 1 which is also phase 1 is on the formulation of local nutrition action plans in sync with the formulation of the comprehensive development plan and the local development investment plan. Component 2 is on advocacy efforts for LCEs to lead in the integration of nutrition in their local development and investment plan. Component 3 is a continuing effort to provide technical assistance to LGUs to finalize the plan, implement, monitor, and update the plan formulated in component 1. Component 4 will involve the introduction of the capacity building program on Nutrition Leadership and Governance.
