ORMOC CITY – While attending to their second day of Barangay Nutrition Action Plan Updating and Budgeting Workshop for 2022, Punong Barangays, Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNSs) and other barangay officials had the opportunity to attend and listen to the Virtual Dialogue with Punong Barangays: Enabling Nutritiin Devolution via Facebook live.

The participants attentively listen to the input given by National Nutrition Council Assistant Secretary and Executive Director Dr. Azucena M. Dayanghirang on Usapang PPAN sa Barangay: Program PangNutrisyon, Gawing Mahusay.

She discussed on the concepts on the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) and First 1,000 Days. The PPAN is the country’s blueprint on nutrition and the formulation of BNAP should be consistent with PPAN. The First 1000 days on the other hand aims to solve the daunting problem of stunting.

Moreover, Assistant Secretary Dayanghirang towards her presentation she highlighted the Barangay Nutrition Action Plan (BNAP) and their targets and their actions to reach the BNAP targets.

Likewise on the roles of Punong Barangay as Barangay Nutrition Committee Chairperson, and the Barangay Nutrition Committee itself. Meanwhile the role of youth as comrades in the fight against malnutrition.

Furthermore, Asec Dayanghirang also stressed out on the opportunities of the Mandanas-Garcia Supreme Court ruling. #NPC-CPD