Region VII

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 31 December 2015

Cebu City - Fueled by the success of the implementation of their 2015 Work Plan, members of the Media Information Network for Nutrition and Development 7 (MIND7) get motivated to do better in 2016.

During the Media Review cum Fellowship Night the National Nutrition Council 7 hosted for their media network, attendees get powered up and eager for a teamed-up advocacy workplan for 2016 as the MIND 7 2015 accomplishments were reported to the body by MIND 7 liaison and NO I Norre Jean V. Delos Santos.

From membership expansion plans, registration with SEC, learning visit, advocacy activities and developing a better performance evaluation system, the forty-three (43) members present put their minds, expertise and hearts for nutrition together to plan up a media advocacy strategy that will surely take Central Visayas by storm.

Held at the Alicia 3 Function Room of the Golden Prince Hotel, Cebu City, the meeting and fellowship night also aimed to thank members of the media for their contribution to the nutrition advocacy efforts of NNC in Central Visayas. It also gave special recognition to several MIND 7 members such as Ms. Mitchell Palaubsanon (print), Mr. Jun Tagalog (radio), Ms. Nancy Ucag (social media) and Ms. Marie Mignon Nillama (for support during the Mural Painting Contest), for their exemplary contributions in 2015.

As Charter President Mr. Jun Tagalog puts “I have never thought MIND 7 would evolve into this strong, active and successful organization. To continue this level of development is a challenge to all of us, indeed”//NGS.

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 15 December 2015

City of Naga – Accepting the inevitable but wanting to properly bid their Negros Oriental peers good bye, the FeBaNuSA 7, Inc. officers decided focusing efforts in said province to prepare it for its eventual separation from Central Visayas.

Concluding their decision and incorporating it on their 2016 Work and Financial Plan, the Federation of Barangay Nutrition Scholars’ Association Region 7, Inc. aims to send off their peers from the Negros Oriental province who has been separated from Central Visayas thru the formation of the new Negros Island Province in 2015.

Because ties with said province still lie with Central Visayas in 2016, the organization has decided during its 2015 Program Implementation Review (PIR) and 2016 Planning activity to shift focus on Negros Oriental specifically on ensuring that local (provincial/city/municipal) associations are intact and that each barangay be provided with a BNS.

That in mind, the PIR/Planning activity held on 08-09 December 2015 at the City of Naga, Cebu, voted to conduct activities in the province such as the 1^st Q meeting, a learning visit to the Bayawan City-based FNRI-DOST BIGMO Production plant and to tentatively hold the Regional Congress in the same city. Other activities include providing technical assistance to local BNS associations as well as to campaign for the recruitment of BNSs in municipalities that have limited number of BNSs.

As the time to say good bye comes near, a lot is in store for the FeBaNuSA 7 Inc. and their preparation of Negros BNS associations for the big farewell, a challenge to the organization officers who will spearhead these activities. Like children, the Negros BNSs must be weaned from their mother organization and empowered to stand on their own.//NGS

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 27 November 2015

Cebu City – A refreshing change from the usual mentally exhausting discussion, this quarter’s Regional Nutrition Management Conference, gets a bit of zest to awaken the tired local nutrition workers’ interest.

Taking a refreshing turn from the usual long hard technical discussion and updates, ManCon participants, Nutrition Action Officers and District/City Nutrition Program Coordinators of the Provinces and Cities of Central Visayas, were treated to a day-long rousing writeshop, an exciting Program Implementation Review, an early Christmas Fellowship Night and a shorter technical session.

ManCon participants were treated to a skills development session with Ms. Nancy C. Ucag, a professional writer who facilitated a writeshop on preparing documentation reports on 11 November 2015. The group practiced making case stories anchored on the 2015 Nutrition Month celebration. Their outputs will be showcased in the Central Visayas 2015 NM Report.

This year’s program implementation review, facilitated by Ms. Jodelyn May G. Seno (an Organizational Development practitioner and a motivational speaker), aims to help LGUs identify nutrition program management difficulties and means of addressing them on 12 November 2015.

Read more: Regional ManCon gets Zest

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 15 December 2015

Danao City – Chosen mainly because of their ready support for the nutrition program, despite it being a relatively new concept in their community, the five sentinel barangays of Carmen, Cebu generated enough enthusiasm and optimism to propel the municipality and its goal towards improved nutrition thru the Food and Nutrition Security – Early Warning System (FNS-EWS).

Completing the FNS-EWS training for household enumerators, health and nutrition workers and members of the barangay local nutrition committees of Barangays Barring, Cogon East, Corte, Fuente and Poblacion, showed their eagerness especially in the group activities held on 03-04 December 2015 at the Intosan Resort, Danao City.

Carmen, Cebu was pinpointed as the Central Visayas’ second FNS-EWS area after Buenavista in the Province of Bohol, being one of the consistently highest ranking municipalities in terms of malnutrition with 16.25% in the 2014 OPT Plus data and ranking 3^rd in the region.

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 14 November 2015

Tagbilaran City – On their 11^th Regional BNS Congress, the Federation of Barangay Nutrition Scholars’ Association 7 Inc. (FeBaNuSA 7, Inc.), were happily surprised by a sudden increase in the attendance of their yearly congress, from the usual of around eight hundred or so, to a staggering one thousand one hundred participants.

“It must be the appeal of crossing seas” commented Ms. Juanita Hinay, BNS of Tagbilaran City, whose City Nutrition Committee played host to the congress held on 05-06 November 2015 at the Bohol Tropics Resort Club and the Barangay Cogon Gymnasium respectively.

This year the program themed “Serbisyong pang-nutrisyon BNS kanunay’ng matinud-on” was keynoted by Bohol Governor Edgardo M. Chatto delivered by Bohol first district Board Member Hon. Cesar Thomas M. Lopez. There was also technical lectures that revolve around topics such as Leadership Techniques, the Pinggang Pinoy and the 10 Kumainments, Organizing and Maintaining a BNC, and Healthy Lifestyle and the Role of BNS in Preventing Overweight and Obesity. With such topics, many of the BNSs and BNC members were given a lowdown of knowledge to help them improve nutrition program implementation in their barangays.

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 27 November 2015

Cebu City – Despite having exposed to the regional nutrition programs during the quarterly meetings, participated in the regional nutrition events (Nutrition Month, Breastfeeding Month) and their assistance during the LGU monitoring activities (MELLPI, PGN, Monitoring Outside MELLPI season), it finally came the time to formally introduce the group to the nutrition program management principles.

Thanks to the Department of Social Welfare and Development 7, chair to the technical working group, funding the training, members old and new were reacquainted to the nutrition program. The activity was held at the Golden Prince Hotel, Cebu City on 18-19 November 2015,