PALO LEYTE A total of about 120 local government units in Eastern Visayas is now equipped with the knowledge and skills on how to effectively integrate nutrition of Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition PPAN programs and projects in the updating of Provincial Development and Physical Framework Plan PDPFP Comprehensive Development Plan CDP and the Local Development Investment Program LDIP Fiscal Year 20202022 The planning workshop on integrating nutrition in the PDPFP CDP and LDIPs was conceived primarily to 1 increase the understanding of provincialcitymunicipal teams on the alarming problem of malnutrition in the country and its impact on national

Members and representatives of the PNHRS Research Utilization Committee from the 17 regional health research and development consortia participated in the 13 th Philippine National Health Research System PNHRS Week preconference session Campaigning towards AIDSfree Society held last 13 August 2019 in Cagayan de Oro City

We would like to invite you to submit proposals to the Call for Application to the research grants under the Green Chemistry for Life Project of UNESCOs International Basic Sciences Programme IBSP and PhosAgro the largest producer of phosphatebased fertilizer in Europe in close cooperation with the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry IUPAC

Samar State University SSU in collaboration with the other Higher Education Institutions HEIs and Local Government Units LGUs in Region will be staging the 3 rd National Conference on Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development PovCon on September 25 27 2019 at Saint Paul School of Professional Studies Campetic Palo Leyte with the theme Capitalizing Filipino Culture in Transforming Communities into a Globally Competitive Countryside

The Department of Science and TechnologyPhilippine Council for Agriculture Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development DOSTPCAARRD has again awarded the prestigious Tanglaw Award to the Visayas State University as the countrys Most Outstanding Research Institution for 2019