By Joelyn G. Baluyut
CITY OF SAN
FERNANDO , Pampanga, July 10 (PIA) -- National
Nutrition Council’s (NNC) Monitoring and Evaluation of Local Level
Plan Implementation (MELLPI) of nutrition program among the
provinces, cities, and municipalities in Central
Luzon is now on its last three months of evaluation.
According to outgoing Regional Nutrition Coordinator (RNC)
Maria Vicenta Magpantay “MELPPI started last May until September
of this year.”
MELLPI is a management tool to assess progress of plan
implementation, identify strengths and weaknesses in implementing the
program, and institute appropriate corrective measures and facilitate
achievement of the plan’s objective.Among its objectives are: to assess the efficiency of local
level plan implementation; to measure changes in weight status of
preschool and school children during the evaluation year; to determine the
extent to which nutrition is integrated into local development plans
and programs; and to advocate for the continuing support for
local nutrition programs.
Magpantay also said that “the coverage of this includes all
provinces and cities that formulated their provincial/city nutrition
action plans (P/CNAPs), all municipalities that formulated their
municipal nutrition action plans (MNAPs), and Provincial Evaluation
Team (PET) identified Outstanding
Municipality in the
Province will be automatically included among the municipalities to be
evaluated by the Regional Nutrition Evaluation Team (RNET).” Meanwhile, NNC also evaluates the performance of the
Barangay Nutrition Scholar (BNS).
BNS are the barangay-based volunteers tasked to coordinate
the delivery of basic nutrition and related services in their
respective area of assignments.
The provision for giving of awards is in the level of
National, Regional, and Provincial. And recognition comes in the form
of incentives or awards such as the Green Banner Award,
Consistent Regional Outstanding Winner in Nutrition (CROWN), Nutrition
Honor Award (NHA) and the National Outstanding BNS.
The Green Banner Award (GBA) is given to a municipality,
city or province, which has shown very satisfactory performance in implementing its nutrition program. An area awarded the
Green Banner
for three consecutive years as outstanding regional winner
is automatically awarded the CROWN Award.
For Region 3, the province
of Pampanga is the GBA
for 2010. While, for the City category, Tarlac City
in Tarlac is the GBA from 2009-201. For municipality level, the following are GBA holders: Paombong,
Bulacan; Dinalungan,
Aurora; Bagac, Bataan; Talavera, Nueva Ecija; Guagua, Pampanga; Anao, Tarlac; and Candelaria, Zambales.
To date, Bulacan
Province is vying for 2nd
year CROWN Maintenance award; the National Evaluation Team (NET) visited it last
June 4-8 and sample municipalities are Bulakan, San Rafael , Balagtas and Doña
Remedios Trinidad. Tarlac
City , meanwhile, is on
its third year running for RGBA for Crown. Pampanga
Province and Paombong,
Bulacan are vying for their second year run for RGBA outstanding province and
municipality in the region.
The CROWN awardees are then visited by a National Nutrition
Evaluation Team for three consecutive years to check whether their
efforts in maintaining a downward trend of malnutrition are sustained
through a
well-coordinated plan implementation. Recipients of the CROWN Award qualify to vie for the
Nutrition Honor Award, the highest award given by NNC to outstanding
achievers in nutrition program implementation for another three
consecutive years. (CLJD/JGB-PIA3)
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