SK PDI Planning 2022The National Nutrition Council Caraga conducted a three-day Planning Workshop on Integrating Nutrition in Provincial Development and Physical Framework Plan (PDPFP), Comprehensive (CDP), and Local Development Investment Programs for Local Government Units known as the “Local Nutrition Action Planning Workshop” for the Province of Dinagat Islands on 14-16 September 2022 at Almont Beach Resort, Lipata, Surigao City, Surigao Del Norte.

There are a total of fifty (50) participants from eight (8) municipalities, including the province whom attended the said planning workshop. To widen the reach of nutrition programs, NNC Caraga also invited participants from Sangguniang Kabataan or SK. In response, two SK Federation officers from the Municipalities of Basilisa and Libjo heeded the invitation and participated in the workshop.

According to the Republic of the Philippines Commission on Elections Book III – Title One – Chapter 8 Section 426, one of the functions of the Sangguniang Kabataan is to Initiate programs that are beneficial to the members.

On the nutrition agenda, one of the silent contributors of malnutrition is teenage pregnancy. In Caraga region, 2337 cases of teenage pregnancy were recorded in the first quarter of 2022, while there are 2081 cases of teenage pregnancy in the second quarter of 2022 based on the data tallied from Commission of Population Development Caraga.

Through this three-day Planning Workshop, NNC Caraga OIC Dr Nino Archie S. Labordo, emphasizes the possible roles of Sangguniang Kabataan Federation in their respected municipality on how to address the silent contributor of malnutrition namely teenage pregnancy through adopting their idea of the First 1000 days of life, supplementary feeding for teenage and first-time mothers.

As Christian Dennis N. Linaga of Libjo and Vencent Esmeralda of Basilisa SK Federation are in attendance, OIC-RNPC Labordo took the opportunity to introduced the nutrition and nutrition-related programs that could help the nutrition situation of their respective areas. #LCJAbian/NASlabordo