GAIBANDHA, Jan 28, 2020 (BSS) – A district orientation workshop with district nutrition coordination committee (DNCC) was held at the conference room of SKS Inn at Radhakrishnapur, an outskirt of the district town on Monday with a call to ensure nutrition for all.
Sustained Opportunities for Nutrition Governance (SONGO) project being implemented here by RDRS Bangladesh and ICCO Cooperation with the financial support of European Union arranged the workshop.
The objectives of the workshop were to create understanding on the importance of DNCC to reach nutrition goals at district level among district nutrition stakeholders, explain nutrition, nutrition priorities, strategies and result framework for nutrition governance at district level.
To discuss the importance of nutrition governance and multi-partnership collaboration and management and create vision on nutrition and nutrition governance by 2025 were the other objectives of the workshop, sources said.
Deputy Commissioner (DC) and also chairperson of DNCC Abdul Matin presided over the workshop while Diane Bosch, nutrition adviser of Wageningen University, Netherlands facilitated the function and nutrition governance adviser of SONGO project Taufiqul Islam was the co-facilitator at the event.
The participants in five groups wrote down their suggestions and then presented it how to promote the nutrition condition in the district gradually and what will be the nutrition status here by 2025 side by side with discussing the problem identification exercise elaborately.
At last, a concluding ceremony was also held. Civil surgeon Dr. ABM Abu Hanif who is also the member secretary of DNCC delivered his speech urging all to work in their respective position properly in a bid to ensure nutrition for all before 2030.
Deputy project manager of SONGO project Pratik J. Patel, and operation lead, SONGO project, ICCO Cooperation, Mostafa Nurul Islam Reza spoke at the concluding ceremony, among others.
Earlier, DC Abdul Matin called upon all the members of the committee to work sincerely and dedicatedly to make the objectives and the goals of the committee more effective and successful in the district so that the committee might be a model one in the country.
All the members of the DNCC and UNOs who are the chairpersons of Sundarganj and Fulchhari upazila Nutrition Coordination Committee participated in the workshop spontaneously.