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Jagna, Bohol: 2nd CROWN Hopeful
Jagna, Bohol – Delayed from its original National Evaluation schedule in March, the Municipality of Jagna finally gets its chance to prove itself worthy of the elusive 2nd Year Consistent Regional Outstanding Winner in Nutrition (CROWN) Award as the evaluation pushes through on the 26-29 May 2015.Made up of five members, the National Evaluation Team,…
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10 Batches Left, and CV Gears up to Continue Positive PGN-IYCF Outcomes
Cebu City – Central Visayas gears up for the final rounds of Promote Good Nutrition-Infant and Young Child Feeding (PGN-IYCF) Trainings in its Priority 4 areas of Cebu and Siquijor Provinces, the last of the region’s four provinces to be trained, and vows to continue the program as it has overwhelmingly affected the region’s nutrition…
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NNC 7 to Distribute Weighing Tools to Select LGUs
Cebu City- True to its words, the National Nutrition Council Region 7 is now poised to distribute promised weighing scales to Local Government Units (LGUs) who have recently trained their barangay nutrition scholars on the Basic Course for Barangay Nutrition Scholars and/or the World Health Organization-Child Growth Standards (WHO-CGS). The distribution of the monitoring tools…
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NNC 7 and RBATF 7 Celebrate Goiter Awareness Week
Cebu City- With the aim to increase public awareness on the prevention and control of goiter and Iodine Deficiency Disorder (IDD), the National Nutrition Council 7 and the Regional Bantay Asin Task Force 7 (RBATF 7) celebrated the Goiter Awareness Week (GAW) on 26-30 January 2015. Presidential Proclamation No. 1188 signed in 2006 declared every…
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NNC 7 Mobilizes Networks to Nurture Local Nutrition Committees
Cebu City – NNC 7 starts a vigilant campaign to put a dent in the malnutrition rate of Central Visayas through a more proactive scheme of actions in 2015, running along the theme of “LNC nurturing”.Decided upon by the NNC 7 staff during their 2014 year-end review and 2015 planning activity on 13-14 January 2015…
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RNC-TWG Sends Off Former Chair with Pens and Kind Words
Cebu City – Nostalgic and very grateful, the Regional Nutrition Committee – Technical Working Group of Central Visayas bid their former chairperson, Mr. Rafael “Boy” M. Tagalog Jr. adieu during the 1st Quarter RNC-TWG Meeting at the Golden Peak Hotel, Cebu City on 05 February 2015. Armed with pens (to represent Mr. Tagalog’s technical writing…
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RNC-TWG gears Siquijor Up for PNAP
Siquijor, Siquijor – While the rest of the country braces itself to the onslaught of Typhoon Ineng, members of the Regional Nutrition Committee – Technical Working Group brave stormy weather and big waves to help re-awaken the Siquijor Provincial Nutrition Committee on 19 August 2015.Summoned by Governor Zaldy S. Villa, Provincial Heads of Offices (PSWDO,…
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NNC 7 Joins PopCom Service Tour
Cebu Province – On its quest to complement local nutrition committees’ efforts in the promotion of good nutrition in the community and to prove that good nutrition is not only for women and children but for all age groups and all sexes, the National Nutrition Council Region 7 joins the Commission on Population 7 in…
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RONDA 1 visits MIND 7 for Benchmarking
Cebu City – Traveling roughly a thousand kilometers from the Ilocos region, members of the Regional Organization of Nutrition Advocates (RONDA) 1 came to the Queen City of the South, Cebu to visit with the Media Information Network for Nutrition and Development (MIND) 7 for a two-day benchmarking activity.Arriving on the 5th of August 2015,…
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Pamplona’s GB is “Shaken” as the Province becomes part of NIR
Cebu City – At its second year as Central Visayas’ most outstanding municipality, the town of Pamplona is in a quandary as to what will become of its rise towards the much coveted Consistent Regional Outstanding Winner in Nutrition (CROWN) Award and the hope to reach the elusive Nutrition Honor Award as the area, together…
