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  • Title: The Philippine nutrition programme. A government and private effort.
    Author: Solon FS.
    Journal: Carnets Enfance; 1976; 35():72-9. PubMed ID: 12308192.
    Abstract:
    In 1969 the National Coordinating Council on Food and Nutrition (NCCFN) was formed to organize the efforts of the government and private sectors in the area. Government agencies included the Food and Nutrition Research Center (FNRC), the Departments of Health, Education, Defense, and Social Welfare, the Presidential Assistant for Community Development, and the National Economic Council. Private agencies included the Nutrition Foundation of the Philippines, the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement, and the Philippine National Red Cross. In 1970, the NCCFN merged with the National Food and Agricultural Council (NFAC) under the Department of Agriculture. NFAC was then given the task of coordinating the nutrition program within the country under a Philippine Food and Nutrition Program. In 1974, nutrition was given priority status in the development plan with the creation by Presidential decree of the National Nutrition Council (NNC) to coordinate and implement a Philippine Nutritional Program (PNP) that would integrate the efforts of public and private agencies. At the same time Mrs. Marcos founded the Nutrition Center of the Philippines to draw the resources and cooperation of the private sector behind the program. The 1st step in the PNP is to establish a dynamic organizational structure at all levels of operation so that the responsibility for the successful implementation of the program rests on local government leaders. The municipality has been identified as the focal point in program implementation. The final link between the nutrition agencies, committees, and target families is the so-called barangay network which is composed of a teacher-coordinator, a zone leader and a number of unit leaders to take charge of family clusters formed in the community. The program revolves around 5 intervention schemes: health protection, which involves identifying children and families in need of immediate assistance, food assistance, food production, nutrition education, and family planning. Private support for the program consists of provision of financial, material, and technical resources and is considered crucial to its success.
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