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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
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Cebu City - Internet which undeniably becomes part of many lives especially the millennials has brought various improvements in the field of communication, entertainment and education through its ability to instantly connect people around the globe. Being one of the most looked forward media channel, the internet becomes a relevant medium used for advocacies.
Recognizing its importance, the National Nutrition Council 7 and the Media Information Network for Nutrition and Development 7 (MIND 7) under its social media campaign uses it as one of the medium to inform and educate netizens about proper nutrition. With its present 5,778 Facebook likes and 139 twitter followers, NNC 7 launched its new project through Social Media – the “Nutri – Quiz: Test your Knowledge on Foods and Nutrition”. The campaign which officially started on 27 April 2016 is done in a form of an online quiz open to all interested netizens. One nutrition question per week will be posted allowing the participants to type in their answers. A thorough explanation of the answer of the posted question will also be posted at every end of the week.
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Cebu City – MELLPI season has once again come upon Central Visayas with the Regional Nutrition Evaluation Team (RNET) starting this year’s monitoring and evaluation activities in the cities of Bayawan, Mandaue, Naga and Carcar on 29 March to April 08 2016. The RNET will visit other LGUs in the next three months.
Braving the summer heat to visit local nutrition committees, RNET 7 is prepared in this annual monitoring activity. They just finished a refresher course on Nutrition Program Management in November of last year and a re-orientation on MELLPI tools and protocol on 23 February 2016.
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Cebu City - With the recent heat index reaching up to 41 degrees Celsius the past week in Cebu City and the aftermath brought by Typhoon Haiyan the previous years, it’s evident that climate change has already taken its toll to humanity. The impacts of climate change have significantly affected not only the weather but also us.
Among the impacts of climate change are malnutrition and food insecurity which worsens during extreme weather events and long term climate risks. Due to change in climate, the intensity of disasters has worsened destroying crops, infrastructures and community assets which will affect livelihood and eventually will lead to poverty and hunger.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization have estimated one out of nine people to be suffering from chronic malnutrition from 2014-2016 worldwide while in the Philippines, according to the Food and Nutrition Research Institute in 2013, they have estimated one out of ten Filipino adults who are Chronic Energy Deficient whereas two out of ten children ages 0 to 5 years old are underweight.
Read more: Climate Change: a Threat to Food Security and Malnutrition
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Tagbilaran City, Bohol – It has been more than a decade since the Barangay Nutrition Scholars Association of Bohol has been conducting its annual provincial summit. Now on its 14th year, the Bohol Province Barangay Nutrition Scholars’ Association held its annual gathering on 11 March 2016 at the Bohol Cultural Center, Tagbilaran City, Bohol.
With the theme “BNS: The Backbone for Malnutrition Reduction”, the event was attended by 1,216 participants composed of barangay nutrition scholars in the province and some nutrition advocates and partners. The activity was composed of technical sessions including “The First 1000 Days” by ND IV Julieta G. Tutor of the Department of Health 7, “Implementing nutrition program thru the Barangay Nutrition Committee” by NO III Susan Y. Orpilla of the National Nutrition Council 7, and “Pinoy Nutrition Hub strategy in solving malnutrition” by Ms. Stecy Pelayre of World Vision Development Foundation, Inc.
Bohol provincial governor and Chair of the Provincial Nutrition Committee Hon. Edgardo M. Chatto, Vice Governor Hon. Conception O. Lim and Tagbilaran City Mayor and Chair of City Nutrition Committee Hon. John Geesnell L. Yap also graced the event.
Ten (10) Barangay Nutrition Scholars were given special awards during the summit to recognize their unwavering effort and passion for the nutrition program. Four long serving BNSs were given certificates and cash awards of Php 2,000.00 each and six family members of BNSs were given mortuary assistance in the amount of Php 10,000.00 each. Hon. Chatto handed over the awards to deserving frontline nutrition workers. BNS kits containing a BNS manual, OPT Plus forms, reporting forms and BNS and purok evaluation tools as well as medicine kits were distributed to all BNSs during the summit.
Bohol Provincial Nutrition Action Officer, Mr. Larry M. Pamugas in his closing remarks thanked all the BNSs for their efforts in helping improved the nutrition situation of the province. The event ended with a raffle draw where BNSs brought home souvenir items, new learning and good memories from the event. //NDP-NO II Honey Lyn D. Danila
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Cebu City – Students of the Nutrition and Dietetics program of the University of San Carlos collaborates with the local nutrition committee (LGU) of Liloan, Cebu in the conduct of the 2016 Operation Timbang Plus in four of the municipality’s barangays: Poblacion, Catarman, Jubay and San Vicente.
The activity which is part of the student’s Public Health Nutrition practicum, involved the students accompanying BNSs and BHWs for two days in the conduct of the OPT Plus, giving them a hands-on experience of how the activity is carried out. They were given tasks such as the actual weighing and height/length taking in the sitio/puroks they were assigned in.
Operation Timbang Plus is the annual taking of height and weight measurement of all pre-schoolers ages 0-71 months or below 6 years in a community to identify and locate the malnourished children taking place during the first quarter of every year.
The purpose for this yearly program is to provide information to the LGU of the effectiveness of their local nutrition program. Thus, the results of the said program reveal the nutritionally depressed areas which serve as the top priority in the LGU’s nutrition planning program and intervention.
In partaking in said activity, the BSND students were able to get a fell of the roles and responsibilities of local nutrition workers as well as experience first hand the time, effort and resources needed to conduct such activity. It enabled them to appreciate these workers’ contribution to the nutrition program. //Mary Margaret B. Asumbrado, USC Intern/NGS
