Tagbilaran City – All 47 municipalities in the province of Bohol brace themselves for monitoring activities to be conducted by the Provincial Nutrition Evaluation Team and will be followed right after by the regional evaluation starting the first week of April through June 2016.

Provincial nutritionists and other members of the Provincial Nutrition Committee also gear up to assess their assigned municipalities.

Evaluation will cover the different nutrition and related programs implemented by the local government units including Home, School and Community Food Production, Micronutrient Supplementation, Food Fortification, Food Assistance, Nutrition Education, Nutrition in Essential Maternal and Child Health Services, Livelihood Assistance and other initiatives by the municipalities.

The evaluation team also assesses the nutritional status of preschool children by doing validation weighing of at least 10% of preschool children in randomly selected barangays. A feedback conference is also conducted by the team where findings and recommendations will be presented to the local nutrition committees to help improve nutrition program management.

Barangay nutrition committees are encouraged to conduct their own regular monitoring and evaluation activities to have a better grasp of how the nutrition program is faring at the grassroots level.// PHA/NO I Ardin B. Abrea