TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines - The National Nutrition Council Region 8 (NNC-8) and the PLAN International, Inc. not long ago strengthened their partnership by forging a agreement to upgrade the life of young kids in the unhappy areas in the region.
The NNC-8 and PLAN Visayas Programme Area, in a chit of agreement (MoA), concluded to come together efforts and sustain a shut working attribute to upgrade the high quality of life amid children, mainly the marginalized, so they can suffer their legacy of Health and Nutrition.
NNC-8 Regional Director Carina Z. Santiago and PLAN International Inc. Area Manager for Visayas Rodel C. Bontuyan sealed the MoA April 19, 2011 at Alejandro Hotel, this town during the 1st Regional Nutrition Committee Meeting.
The NNC is the country’s policy-making and coordinating body on nourishment compelling multi-sectoral, multi-level, and integrated action to accomplish a well-nourished Filipino population.
Meanwhile PLAN International, a charitable non-government group (NGO), has the objective to upgrade the high quality of lives of deprived children, their family groups and communities in unhappy areas by extenuation them financial, technical and element encouragement for their health, preparation and other viable projects so that the full potentials of all young kids may be realized.
It was concluded that: The NNC will supply the PLAN with periodic refurbish on the nutritive position of young kids in PLAN-covered areas and antecedent IEC materials on nourishment for clone and placement to PLAN-covered communities; make sure that the Program Unit Managers of PLAN-assisted provinces will lay as associate of the Provincial Nutrition Committees (PNC) and that the PLAN Area Supervisors will moreover lay as associate of the Municipal
Nutrition Committees (MNC) to pledge a more concurrent and effective doing of nourishment programs.
On the other hand, PLAN will encouragement the NNC&rsquo! ;s capab ility-building module for local nourishment workers (Municipal Nutrition Action Officers and Barangay Nutrition Scholars); assist the nourishment preparation efforts of NNC to local communities in the actions of Pabasa sa Nutrisyon sessions and ability of kits to PLAN-covered localities and in areas with high superiority of malnutrition;
Provide financial/material benefit to local supervision units (LGUs) in the actions of supplemental feedings in covered areas with high superiority of gauntness as identified by the NNC; assist the LGUs to accomplish a more effective evaluation of the nourishment incident by the ability of nourishment evaluation tools; share financial and element resources to LGUs contending for nourishment awards, quite the but not paltry to its covered areas; and allocate a permanent and a swap associate to the Regional Technical Working Group (RTWG) on Nutrition, the technical arm of the Regional Nutrition Committee.
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