BAGUIO CITY – The Cordillera office of the National Nutrition Council (NNC-CAR) recently launched the Nutri ‘Abung,’ a virtual home and community of nutrition workers in the region, using the facebook group facility to sustain the continuing education of nutrition workers.
NCC-CAR regional program coordinator Rita Papey said that the Nutri ‘Abung’ will serve as a resource center, knowledge center, reference center among others where members can access available information, share information and conduct conversations to enhance coordination, monitoring, and capacity building.
However, she clarified that the members of the Nutri ‘Abung’ will be limited to the over 2,300 barangay nutrition scholars (BNS) and the more than 100 barangay nutrition action officers (BNAOs) and nutrition coordinators based in the different parts of the region.
“We expect the members of the Nutri Abung to share their materials in the group. Initially, we already posted some materials in the Abung and that we will continue to be posting important materials that will serve as added information materials for the members,” Papey stressed.
See more stories:
The NNC-CAR claimed that the Nutri ‘Abung’ will also serve as a facility for their nutrition partners can submit their periodic reports where nutrition workers will be able to earn from the experiences of others.
The group has an initial membership of more than 100 who were able to actively participate during the launching of the facility.
While the initial members is a small fraction of the nutrition workers in the region, Papey disclosed that the NNC-CAR will attempt to entice qualified members to be part of the group by the end of the year so that there will be a greater source of ideas on how to further improve the implementation of nutrition programs, projects and activities regionwide.
She urged all BNS, BNAOs, district program coordinators and members of the regional committee on nutrition with faceboook accounts to join the group to open a greater avenue of discourse on nutrition issues and concerns and to find a wide array of strategies on how to enhance the government’s nutrition advocacy in the grassroots level.
According to her, the NNC-CAR and its partners can no longer do face to face activities with the wrath of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic but work on nutrition has to be aggressively done, thus, with the Nutri ‘Abung,’ the agency can continue to connect and even connect with better efficiency among each other for capacity building, monitoring and coordination.
Papey expressed optimism that the NNC-CAR can encourage all the target members to join the group for them to be able to get the needed network with other nutrition workers so that the cascading of appropriate information to the public will become effective and efficient among the involved stakeholders.
Aside from the effective and efficient transfer of knowledge, the Nutri ‘Abung’ will also help in the government’s cost cutting efforts because there is no more need for the nutrition workers to travel to their convergence area for seminars and trainings.
By Hent
You might also like:
