Jakarta, 11 March 2025
SEAMEO RECFON held an online Workshop on the Strengthening Phase of the Nutrition Goes to Workplace (NGTW) Program on Wednesday, March 11, 2026. This workshop was the beginning of a series of activities to strengthen and assist the implementation of the program at the workplace level, specifically in schools.
The NGTW Program is one of SEAMEO RECFON’s flagship programs aimed at improving the productivity and well-being of the working-age population through a nutrition and occupational health approach. In its implementation within the education sector, teachers and school staff members are considered as important role models in promoting a healthy lifestyle among students. Therefore, schools have been selected as one of the strategic focal points for the implementation of this program.
This workshop is a follow up to the training and workshops conducted in 2025, which were attended by schools participating in the program across the Jakarta, Bogor, and Depok areas. The outcome of these activities was the development of each school’s Action Plan for the NGTW Program, serving as an initial commitment to program implementation. Through this workshop, SEAMEO RECFON, together with its academic partners serving as the program mentoring team, namely Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka (UHAMKA) and Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jakarta (UPN Veteran Jakarta), developed strategies and defined roles to provide technical support and guidance to partner schools, in order to ensure the effectiveness and sustainability of program implementation at the school level.
In her opening remarks, the Acting Deputy Director for Program of SEAMEO RECFON, Dr. Dwi Nastiti Iswarawanti, emphasized the importance of collaboration among institutions, academic partners, and implementing units in supporting the successful implementation of the NGTW Program. During the workshop, participants also conducted a review of the Action Plans that had been developed by partner schools, followed by discussions on the targets and number of schools to be mentored by each academic partner. In addition, participants discussed the implementation stages of the NGTW Program at the implementing unit level, including the criteria and indicators for each stage, as well as deliberations to agree on the monitoring tools and mentoring mechanisms to be applied throughout the program implementation process.
This activity resulted in several initial agreements between SEAMEO RECFON and its academic partners regarding the mentoring mechanisms and implementation indicators of the program at the implementing unit level. The outcomes of these discussions will serve as the foundation for the next meeting, which will involve partner schools to finalize their Action Plans and strengthen their commitment to implementing the Nutrition for Productivity Program within the school environment.