Cebu City – After continuously being the Green Banner and getting the CROWN Award last year, Toledo City will be awarded the 1st Year Consistent Regional Outstanding Winner in Nutrition (CROWN) Maintenance Award. The decision came from the National Evaluation Team (NET) Meeting last 07 October 2013.
The CROWN Award is given to a municipality, city or province that has been a consistent Green Banner Awardee for three (3) years by the interagency regional nutrition evaluation team for the implementation of its nutrition program. The Local government unit has to maintain its outstanding performance to be conferred the CROWN Maintenance Award which will be evaluated by the National Evaluation Team (NET).
The NET, led by Ms. Jasmine Anne DF. Tandingan, NO II of NSD, NNC with members Ms. Azucena R. Banga from SPAP, Caritas Manila and Mr. Benjamin Jose G. Bautista from SDS, NEDA, visited Toledo City and evaluated its nutrition program last 19 to 20 March 2013. The team did weighing of selected children included in the OPT 2012 masterlist, interview of the BNC, review of records and interviews with the mothers in the barangays Don Andres Soriano, Biga, Bunga, Carmen and Dumlog.
Toledo City will be receiving the 1st Year CROWN Maintenance Award during on 05 November 2013 during the National Nutrition Awarding Ceremony at the Philippine International Convention Center, Pasay City. //DFB
