PALO, Leyte - The municipality of Mondragon in Northern Samar through its Municipal Nutrition Core Planning team attend training on Nutrition and Health Leadership (NutriHeaL for the First 1000 Days under Municipal Nutrition and Governance Program (MNGP). This MNGP training is the last batch to be conducted by the Zuellig Family Foundation (ZFF).

 

In close coordination with the Department of Health and National Nutrition Council, ZFF takes the lead in nutrition leadership and governance. The project is being supported by UNICEF and KOICA.

Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator Dr. Catalino P. Dotollo, Jr. sets the tone of the training with his warm opening message. He emphasizes good nutrition particularly in the First 1000 Days in the life of a child is important and as such needs leadership and good governance.

By leadership and good governance means LGUs must invest if the municipality wanted to have lower stunting and wasting prevalence. It needs to exercise the whole gamut of Nutrition Program Management cycle from an evidence based data to planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluation.

Dr. Dotollo also discussed the modules on the Philippine Nutrition Situation, Causality of Malnutrition, the Philippine Plann of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) 2017-2022, First 1000 Days (F1KD), and the F1KD: Service Delivery network.

 

The emphasis of the training is on Bridging Leadership (BL) taking inyo account the concepts of ownership, co- ownership and co-creation.

The UPM School of Health Sciences in Palo, Leyte is the academic partner of ZFF in the worthy endeavor Municipal Nutrition Governance Program. #NPC-CPD