Micronutrients. Promotion of micronutrients through:
(i) dissemination of information on dietary diversification, vitamin supplements, fortified foods such as iodized salt, and de- worming medication;
(ii) referral of children at risk to health centers; and
(iii) support, according to the accepted norms, for the intake of iron and Vitamin A supplements by pregnant and post-partum women, all through the provision of Subgrants, technical advisory services, goods, minor pharmaceutical drugs and equipment and Operating Costs. Part 2: Multi-sectoral Support for Nutrition Enhancing multi-sectoral support for nutrition through:
(a) updating and strengthening of the annual work plans of MOHP and MOE with nutrition-relevant actions;
(b) identification of areas of collaboration between MOHP and MOE, with emphasis on: (i) enhancing planning capacity through the elaboration of strategic annual work plans; (ii) updating of nutrition-relevant norms for the promotion of a strategy to fight anemia; (iii) advocacy for nutrition within the health and education sectors; (iv) health and nutrition education; and (v) delivery of essential health and nutrition services (including supervision by MOHP of community activities implemented under Part 1 (a) and (b) of the Project);
(c) technical assistance to, and coordination with Sector Ministries towards creating the right conditions for child growth at community level;
(d) support to the HIV/AIDS through a nutrition strategy;
(e) providing targeted support to the MOHP and MOE for the implementation of activities identified in the LE; and
(f) support to COSFAM’s food fortification strategy, all through the provision of technical advisory services, training, studies, goods and Operating Costs. Part 3: Support for Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation of the Program Support for implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Program through:
(a) updating of the monitoring system and of community nutrition activities and its tools to include enhanced monitoring of Part 4 of the Project;
(b) execution of ad-hoc studies, both quantitative and qualitative, regarding child growth, the hungry season, and beneficiaries’ satisfaction within the monitoring system; and
Micronutrients. Promotion of micronutrients through:
(i) dissemination of information on dietary diversification, vitamin supplements, fortified foods such as iodized salt, and de-worming medication;
(ii) referral of children at risk to health centers; and
(iii) support for the intake of iron supplements by pregnant and post-partum women. Part 2: Multi-sectoral Support for Nutrition Enhancing multi-sectoral support for nutrition through:
(a) updating and strengthening of the annual work plan of MOHP and MOE with nutrition-relevant actions;
(b) identification of areas of collaboration between MOHP and MOE, with an emphasis on: (i) enhancing planning capacity by the elaboration of strategic annual work plans; (ii) updating of nutrition-relevant norms for the promotion of a strategy to fight anemia; (iii) advocacy for nutrition within the health and education sectors; (iv) health and nutrition education; and (v) delivery of essential health and nutrition services (including supervision by MOHP of community activities implemented under Part 1 (a) and (b) of the Project);
(c) technical assistance to, and coordination with Sector Ministries towards creating the right conditions for child growth at community level; and
(d) support to the HIV/AIDS and nutrition strategy. Part 3: Support for Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation of the Nutrition Development Policy Support for implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the NDP through:
(a) updating of the monitoring system and of community nutrition activities and its tools to include the role of LG and sectoral ministries;
(b) institutionalization of ad-hoc studies, both quantitative and qualitative, regarding child growth, the hungry season, and client satisfaction within the monitoring system; and
Micronutrients a) Assist the CHD and PHO in the selection of provincial participants to be trained on the manual of operations of the micronutrient supplementation program (strengthening the local-level implementation of micronutrients program);
b) Provide technical support to the province in the provincial roll-out training for LGUs • Organize a pool of trainers from CHD and PHO; • Request training materials from DOH; • Prepare training worksheet for approval and funding support; • Conduct facilitators’ meeting to discuss details of the training program; • Activities, resource persons and assignments, venue, training kits, pre- and post-evaluation, attendance, training evaluation, etc.); • Conduct training with the pool of trainers; • Evaluate the results of the training.
c) Provide technical support to the province in the conduct of post-training follow-up • Discuss with CHD and PHO the rollout training with the MHOs and selected staff; • Conduct rollout training with the PHO, CHD, and trainers using training funds from DOH; • Conduct of post-training monitoring using prescribed guidelines/checklist.
