Zamboanguita, Negros Oriental – The barangay health and nutrition workers in Barangay Calango and all the other barangays of Zamboanguita are busy preparing for the upcoming monitoring and evaluation of the local level plan implementation (MELLPI) Pro to be conducted by the Negros Oriental Provincial Nutrition Evaluation Team (PNET). The PNET is set to visit the municipality on 25 January 2023.

Documents including the Municipal and Barangay Nutrition Action Plans, FSHIS reports, OPT+ data, nutrition data of school children, local policies, information on the delivery of nutrition service such as micronutrient supplementation, food fortification dietary supplementation, Pabasa sa Nutrition, etc. are piled up for evaluation. The municipal and barangay officials and health center personnel pitch in to make their municipal nutrition office and/or barangay nutrition corner ready and presentable for the evaluators.

The PNET will be conducting MELLPI Pro on 23 January until 23 February covering all 19 municipalities in the province this year. They will randomly select 2-3 barangays per municipality to visit to conduct the nutrition evaluation. // ND II Jhianne Mae Nicole C. Tugaoen, RND