Toledo City vies for nutrition award
5:07 AM
Vernon Joseph Go
Toledo City -
“We are hoping that our city will get the Green Banner for the third time and
win the Consistent Regional Outstanding Winner in Nutrition (CROWN) said Hon.
Jocelyn Perales, Chair, Committee on Health and member of City Nutrition
Committee of Toledo City during the presentation of the City’s accomplishment
to the members of the Regional Nutrition Evaluation Team (RNET). The
RNETevaluated Toledo City on 17-18 May 2012 to assess the city’s nutrition
program implementation for 2011.The RNET conducts annual Monitoring and Evaluation of Local
Level Plan Implementation (MELLPI) of nutrition programs and selects the Regional
Outstanding Barangay Nutrition Scholar (BNS).
NNC 7’s Nutrition Program Coordinator, Dr. Parolita A.
Mission said the MELLPI aims to assess the efficiency of local level plan
implementation of the nutrition program, assess changes in nutritional status
of preschool & school children, determine extent to which nutrition is
integrated into the local development plan and advocate for the continuing
support for local nutrition program.Mission added that the RNET also evaluates
the performance of the City’s nominee for Regional Outstanding Barangay
Nutrition Scholar.
Toledo City is vying for the CROWN award after getting
the Green Banner as outstanding city in the region for two consecutive years in
2009 and 2010. The Green Banner Award is given to the first ranking municipality,
city or province in the region that has achieved outstanding performance in
implementing its nutrition programs. A CROWN award is given to a municipality,
city or province that has been adjudged by the interagency regional nutrition
evaluation team as outstanding in the region in the implementation of its nutrition
plan for three consecutive years.
The barangays that are randomly selected and visited
during the evaluation included the Cabitoonan, Calong-calong, Camp 8 and
Ilihan. The RNET validated the nutritional status of the preschool children by
reweighing 10% of the total preschool children in each barangay visited. The
team also checked and looked into the different projects initiated by the City
and made a desk review of all the city’s nutrition records.
The RNET also evaluated the City’s nominee for the
Regional Outstanding Barangay Nutrition Scholar (BNS) in barangay
Calong-Calong. A BNS is a barangay-basedvolunteer worker responsible for delivering nutrition services and other related
activities such as community health, backyard food production, environmental
sanitation, mental feeding, and family planning to the barangay.
The interagency Regional Nutrition Evaluation Team was
headed by Dr. Parolita A. Mission, National Program Coordinator, NNC7, with
team members, Mrs. Evangeline Geraldez, Chief Dietitian, H.W. Miller Hospital
and Sanitarium and Incoming President, Philippine Association of Nutrition,
Mrs. Lovelyn Garcia, Program Officer of the Nutrition Center of the Philippines
and Mr. Dave Bargamento, NO II, NNC 7.
