BAGUIO CITY -- The National Nutrition Council (NNC) in Cordillera will award Alfonso Lista town in Ifugao province the Nutrition Honor Award (NHA) for sustaining and continuously improving its nutrition programs for the past six years.
NNC Regional Coordinator Rita Papey said Wednesday the third-class municipality would join other consistent national awardees in a ceremony at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Manila on July 31.
The Nutrition Honor Award is the highest award given by the NNC to a local government unit that is able to sustain and improve its health programs, benefiting the residents.
Such accomplishment, the agency said, could be seen in the nutritional status of the locality's children, good inter-agency coordination, good documentation, and other good governance practices in the locality.
Papey said the nutrition award is given after a locality has consistently been awarded as the best municipality on nutrition in the region and after three years of getting a standard score from a national evaluation team.
Papey said the town of Alfonso Lista had garnered a rating of 92.89 percent for its nutrition programs.
Alfonso Lista will receive PHP1 million cash award, which the town can use to further boost its health programs. It will also receive a plaque.
In 2017, Ifugao province garnered the Nutrition Honor Award for the provincial category after being awarded the Consistent Regional Outstanding Winner in Nutrition (CROWN) for six years in a row.
The NNC had noted Ifugao's nutrition programs and interventions that improved the nutritional status of the Ifugaos.
Papey said Tublay town in Benguet province is another recipient of the CROWN award. She said it is Tublay's sixth year of being awarded the CROWN award. For this, Tublay will receive PHP500,000 and a plaque of recognition.
Baguio City will also receive its second CROWN award this year. The city garnered a rating of 97.8 percent from the national evaluation team. Baguio will get PHP200,000 and a plaque of recognition.
Earlier, Baguio City health officer Dr. Rowena Galpo told the city media that the City of Pines had garnered a 97.8-percent rating for its second CROWN maintenance award. Galpo said Baguio aims to get the Nutrition Honor Award in 2019, with its nutrition programs and interventions at its 128 barangays.
The NNC in Cordillera will also confer the Green Banner Award on Benguet province for the nutritional achievement of Hungduan town. Other Green Banner Awardees are Ifugao, Balbalan town in Kalinga province, and Sagada town in Mountain Province.
The NNC had conceptualized the awards to recognize the efforts of local government units in improving the nutritional status of children in their communities, and good governance practices in the implementation of their nutrition programs. (PNA)
