Module 7: Phase 4: Re-planning of the NPM Cycle 1

PHASE 4 OF NPM: RE-PLANNING

The previous module emphasized the importance of conducting monitoring and evaluation.
The results of the monitoring and evaluation are inputs in designing for sustainability and
re-planning (Figure 7.1). In this module, you will be equipped with knowledge and skills to do
re-planning based on the results of monitoring and evaluation.

Figure 7.1. LNC members from Region VI re-planning their activities based on PIR results.

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Lesson Title Page

1 Re-planning of Local Nutrition Action Plan (LNAP) 5
2 Assessing Sustainability 8

LIST OF TABLE, FIGURES AND MATRICES

Table Title Page

7.1 Schedule for the preparation of LNAP and AIP in a three-year 7

period
Figure
7.1 LNC members from Region VI re-planning their activities based on 2
PIR results

7.2 Phase 4: Re-planning of the NPM Cycle 6

Matrix
7.1 Assessment of nutrition interventions during re-planning 8
7.2 Some questions for the different areas of sustainability 8
7.3 Assessing the different aspects of each step of LNAP preparation 9
during re-planning

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NUTRI WORKERS ONLINE: Module Seven

 ACRONYMS

AIP Annual Investment Program

BNS Barangay Nutrition Scholar
ELA Executive Legislative Agenda
LGU Local Government Unit
LNAP Local Nutrition Action Plan
LNC Local Nutrition Committee
M&E Monitoring and Evaluation
NAO Nutrition Action Officer
NGO Non-Government Organization
NPM Nutrition Program Management
PIR Plan Implementation Review
WHO World Health Organization

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 LESSON 1
Re-planning of Local Nutrition Action Plan (LNAP)

Understanding Re-planning of LNAP

Figure 7.2 shows that re-planning is the last phase of the Nutrition Program Management
(NPM) cycle.

After the evaluation of the LNAP has been conducted, use results as basis in scaling up and
improving nutrition interventions. You can also use it in revising the design, process, materials
or overall strategies, and activities that are not working well through re-planning.

Why is there a need to re-plan? The following conditions warrant re-planning:

1. Availability of new technologies or standard recommendations, e.g., introduction of the

new World Health Organization (WHO) growth standard;
2. New political leadership (sympathetic or unsympathetic to nutrition program, new
Executive Legislative Agenda (ELA), new budget);
3. Reduced or increased budget/funding allocation;
4. Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) reports noted the intervention was a failure or
success;
5. New institutional arrangement/s;
6. Need to integrate lessons learned;
7. Need to integrate sectoral objectives and interventions;
8. Increase or decrease prevalence of malnutrition;
9. Disapproval of some parts of LNAP in the Annual Investment Program (AIP) by the
Sangguniang Bayan or Sangguniang Panlalawigan; and
10. Occurrence of emergency or disaster situations.

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 Figure 7.2. Phase 4: Re-planning of the NPM Cycle.

Steps in Re-planning
The following activities are carried out in re-planning:
1. Conduct a situation analysis;
2. Adopt or revise existing goals and objectives. Align goals and objectives on the results
of the situational analysis;
3. Re-strategize to identify which interventions should be continued without modification
or continued with changes or started or stopped/terminated; and
4. Package the revised plan and subject it for adoption.

When to re-plan?
Conduct re-planning during the first quarter of the plan period after the AIP has been
approved and mid-year when results of M&E are analyzed. The general timeline depicted in
Table 7.1 is a guide in scheduling the re-planning activity. The preparation of the AIP for
nutrition should be ahead of the regular AIP, which starts in July of each year.

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Table 7.1. Schedule for the preparation of LNAP and AIP in a three-year period.
YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3
Preparation of AIP Year 2 Re-planning of AIP Year 2 Re-planning of AIP Year 3
(April to June) (January to March) (January to March)

Planning for AIP Year 3 Formulation of LNAP for

(April to June) 3 years and AIP Year 1
(April to June)
*Note: Formulation and adoption of the 3-year LNAP and preparation of AIP Year 1 must be done on Year 0

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 LESSON 2
Assessing Sustainability
After completing Lesson 2, you should be able to discuss sustainability in the context of local
nutrition program management and assess sustainability of nutrition interventions.

Sustainability in Local Nutrition Program Management

Conduct an assessment of the sustainability of the nutrition intervention/s and LNAP. Use
results of the assessment, together with that of the evaluation in re-designing the nutrition
intervention and of the entire LNAP.

The following steps can facilitate the assessment of sustainability of nutrition interventions
during re-planning:

1. List the existing nutrition projects in your area;

2. Cluster the intervention which need to be continued without modification and why;
continued with modification and how; stopped and why; and should be started and
how; and
3. Use Matrix 7.1 to write your answers.

Matrix 7.1. Assessment of nutrition interventions during re-planning.

Continue without Continue with
Stop and Why Start and How
modification modification

Assess the sustainability of the nutrition intervention by answering the questions per key area
of sustainability listed in Table 7.2.

Matrix 7.2. Some questions for the different key areas of sustainability.
Key Area Questions
Institutional sustainability • What measures have the LNC taken in order to sustain plan
outputs?
• Has the LGU established a nutrition office? Are there
permanent or full-time Nutrition Action Officers (NAOs) with
staff?

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 Key Area Questions
• Are there adequate Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNSs) to
cater to all households?
• Is the legislative body supportive to the nutrition program in
terms of passing ordinances/resolutions on nutrition and
providing budgetary support/human resource?
Financing sustainability • Is the funding source sufficient to carry out the necessary
future activities?
• Is the LNAP adequately funded through local appropriation?
• How strong is the dependence on outside funding?
• Are funding sources stable?
• Are there non-monetary (or in kind) resources provided for
the implementation of the nutrition plan?
• What resource mobilization activities were undertaken to
address financing gap?
Technical sustainability • Are the knowledge, skills, values, and technology transferred
during the program or project implementation firmly
established with the LGU?
• Is there a mechanism to share the individual knowledge and
skill among the implementers?
• Is there necessary and sufficient equipment and tools to
practice the skill?
• Is there capacity to maintain equipment?
Social acceptance • Are nutrition interventions acceptable to the target
stakeholders?
• Do intended stakeholders utilize services available?
• Is there wide participation and clear-shared purpose?
Environmental • Will the implementation of the nutrition intervention
sustainability damage the environment?

The assessment of LNAP for re-planning purposes can be done by identifying the activities of
nutrition program management which need to be continued without modification and why;
continued with modification and how; stopped and why; and started and how (Matrix 7.3).

Matrix 7.3. Assessing the different aspects of each step of LNAP preparation during re-planning.
Continue
Factors to be Continue with
without Stop and Why Start and How
assessed modification
modification
LNC Structure
Assessment of the
nutrition situation
Setting goals and
objectives

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 Continue
Factors to be Continue with
without Stop and Why Start and How
assessed modification
modification
Identification and
prioritization of
intervention
Preparation of
work plan or plan
of operation
Designing of
monitoring and
evaluation system
Plan packaging
Legislation/
Adoption
Resource
allocation
Integration in
other local
development
plans and budgets

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