Republic of the Philippines 
House of Representatives 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
Second Regular Session 
House Bill No. 9516 
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE PM VARGAS 
AN ACT 
CREATING THE POSITION OF BARANGAY NUTRITION WORKER IN EVERY 
BARANGAY PROVIDING INCENTIVES THERETO, APPROPRIATING FUNDS 
THEREFOR, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 
1569 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The State provides that it shall focus development programs on the 
countryside particularly the quality of life in the barangays and as such Presidential 
Decree 1569 was implemented in the 1970s.  
While PD 1569 or the Barangay Nutrition Program has been a useful step in 
addressing the basic health and nutrition services across the Philippines, the country 
can still benefit from key amendments in the provisions of the Decree.  
The World Bank Reports that undernutrition has always been the country’s 
challenge, at least in the last 30 years.  In its 2019 findings, one in three Filipino 
children, younger than five years old, suffered from stunting with the highest 
prevalence in the regions of Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, 
Southern Tagalog, Bicol Region, Western Visayas and in the South-Central Mindanao. 
The proposed amendment to PD 1569 seeks to reduce these numbers and 
improve nutrition service delivery at the grassroots level through the creation of the 
position of Barangay Nutrition Worker dedicated to ensuring the implementation of 
comprehensive, well-proven direct nutrition interventions.  
The appointment of a BNW aims not only to address the nutrition needs of the 
barangay but to also develop a professional equipped with the skills to promote 
nutrition programs as well as other health programs for the communities.  
In view of the foregoing, immediate passage of this bill is immediately sought. 
REP. PM VARGAS 
Fifth District of Quezon City 
November 13, 2023
10:20 am


Republic of the Philippines 
House of Representatives 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
Second Regular Session 
House Bill No. 9516 
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE PM VARGAS 
AN ACT 
CREATING THE POSITION OF BARANGAY NUTRITION WORKER IN 
EVERY BARANGAY PROVIDING INCENTIVES THERETO, 
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE 
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1569 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. Presidential Decree numbered fifteen hundred sixty-nine (P.D. 
No. 1569), entitled “Strengthening the Barangay Nutrition Program by 
providing for a Nutrition Scholar in Every Barangay” is hereby amended to read 
as follows 
Sec. 1. Barangay Nutrition Program. To strengthen the Barangay 
Nutrition Program, there shall be [project] CREATED under the 
administration and SUPERVISION of the National Nutrition Council IN 
COORDINATION WITH THE CITY OR MUNICIPALITY AND THE 
BARANGAY, [which shall provide for] one (1) MANDATORY POSITION 
OF BARANGAY NUTRITION [scholar] WORKER IN every barangay 
WITH A MONTHLY ALLOWANCE OF NOT LESS THAN FIVE 
THOUSAND PESOS (P5,000.00). 
Sec. 2. Barangay Nutrition [Scholar] Worker. The Barangay 
Nutrition [scholar] WORKER shall be APPOINTED BY THE MAYOR 
WITH 
THE 
CONCURRENCE 
OF 
THE 
MAJORITY 
OF 
ALL 
SANGGUNIANG BAYAN OR THE SANGGUNIANG PANGLUNGSOD 
MEMBERS, THE SANGGUNIANG BARANGAY CONCERNED AND 
UPON THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE NATIONAL NUTRITION 
COUNCIL. The barangay nutrition worker shall be responsible for 
delivering nutrition services and other related activities such as 
community 
health, 
backyard 
food 
production, 
environmental 
sanitation, culture, supplemental feeding, and family planning to the 
barangay. 


Sec. 3. Services. The barangay nutrition worker, while 
[continuously learning] UNDERGOING ACTUAL TRAINING under this 
program, shall serve the barangay on a voluntary basis for at least [a 
period of one year] SIX MONTHS. THEREAFTER, THE NATIONAL 
NUTRITION COUNCIL SHALL ASSESS HIS/HER PERFORMANCE 
AND MAKE THE NECESSARY RECOMMENDATION FOR HIS/HER 
APPOINTMENT. 
 
Sec. 4. Qualifications. The qualifications of a Barangay Nutrition 
Worker shall be as follows: 
a. Bonafide resident of the barangay of at least [four (4) years] 
one (1) year, with the ability to speak the dialect; 
b. Possession of leadership potential and the initiative and 
willingness to serve the barangay [for at least one year]; 
c. Willingness to learn and to teach what he/she learned to 
the barangay people; 
d. At least a [primary] HIGH SCHOOL graduate; 
e. Physical and mental fitness and; 
f. 
At least eighteen (18) years old but not more than sixty (60) 
years old. 
 
 
Sec. 5. Recruitment. The barangay nutrition worker shall be 
recruited from within the barangay and shall be tested on mental 
ability and proper work attitude. 
 
 
 
Sec. 6. Benefits. The Barangay Nutrition Worker shall be granted 
a civil service eligibility equivalent to second grade after the completion 
of at least two (2) years of continuous and satisfactory service in the 
barangay. [He] THE BARANGAY NUTRITION WORKER shall also be 
entitled to a training stipend, meal, and travel allowance of at least 
[P120.00 a year] P250.00 a day, [and in addition thereto, such other 
allowances that the municipality may grant but not exceeding P150.00 
a month.] 
 
 
DURING THE PERIOD OF VOLUNTEER SERVICE PRIOR TO 
APPOINTMENT, HE/SHE SHALL BE ENTITLED TO ALLOWANCE OF 
TWO THOUSAND PESOS (P2,000.00) A MONTH. 
 
 
TO FURTHER ENHANCE THE PROGRAM, THE NATIONAL 
NUTRITION 
COUNCIL, 
IN 
COORDINATION 
WITH 
THE 
DEPARTMENT 
OF 
EDUCATION, 
SHALL 
FORMULATE 
A 
SCHOLARSHIP 
PROGRAM 
WHERE 
THE 
INCUMBENT 
AND 
DESERVING BARANGAY NUTRITION WORKERS SHALL BE GIVEN 
THE OPPORTUNITY TO AVAIL OF PURSUE A COURSE RELEVANT 
TO HIS/HER PRESENT POSITION. 
 
 
Sec. 7. Training. Before actual barangay service, the barangay 
nutrition worker shall undergo a ten-day training on selected topics 
such as nutrition, health, food production, and environmental 


sanitation, based on defined task expectations to be conducted by a 
provincial training team in coordination with the municipal and 
barangay nutrition committee. This training shall be supplemented by 
a twenty-day practicum to be conducted in the barangay where the 
worker is assigned, and such activity shall be in coordination with the 
local training team. 
 
 
Sec. 8. Nutrition Committees. The implementation of this project 
shall be the total responsibility of a Provincial/City Nutrition 
Committee headed by the Governor/City Mayor as Chairman and a 
Municipal Nutrition Committee headed by the Mayor as Chairman. 
 
 
Sec. 9. Local Training Team. The local training team of the 
municipality shall be composed of two members chosen from among 
the 2 members of the Municipal Nutrition Committee. This team shall 
follow up on the activities of the trained barangay nutrition worker. 
 
 
Sec. 10. Role of the Provincial Governor [/City Mayor]. The 
[Municipal] Mayor shall initiate activities to implement this project 
within [the municipality] THEIR JURISDICTION, organize the local 
training teams, and may recommend the appropriation by his 
municipality/city of a local counterpart in the form of additional 
allowance of the barangay nutrition worker. 
 
 
Sec. 11. Role of the [Municipal] Mayor. The [Municipal] Mayor shall 
initiate activities to implement this project within [the municipality] 
THEIR JURISDICTION, organize the local training teams, and may 
recommend the appropriation by his municipality/city of a local 
counterpart in the form of additional allowance for the barangay 
nutrition worker. 
 
 
Sec. 12. Barangay Nutrition Worker Staff Secretariat. There shall 
be a staff secretariat in every province/city which shall monitor the 
progress of the program, identify its problems, and recommend 
possible solutions thereto. 
 
 
Sec. 13. National Nutrition Council. The National Nutrition Council 
shall formulate rules and regulations, plans, and programs within the 
limits set forth in this Act, and allocate the funds for this project to the 
various provinces and/or agencies, for disbursement in accordance 
with the financial plan of the Barangay Nutrition Workers Project. 
 
 
Sec. 14. Donations. For the purposes of this Program, the National 
Nutrition Council and the local governments are authorized to receive 
grants; donations, gifts, or bequests from various government agencies 
and government corporations which shall be tax-exempt. 
 
 
Sec. 15. Appropriations. The amount of One Million Pesos out of 
any available funds from the National Treasury or from the Special 


Activities Funds is hereby appropriated and authorized to be released 
for the organization and initial operation of the Council and the local 
governments for the purposes of this program. Local governments are 
likewise authorized to appropriate such AMOUNTS NECESSARY FOR 
THE SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS PROGRAM, 
PROVIDED, 
THAT 
THE 
CITY 
OR 
MUNICIPALITY 
SHALL 
APPROPRIATE, AS PART OF ITS ANNUAL BUDGET FOR PERSONAL 
SERVICES, THE NECESSARY AMOUNT OF ONE THOUSAND PESOS 
(P1,000.00) PER MONTH PER BARANGAY NUTRITION WORKER, 
PROVIDED 
FURTHER, 
THAT 
THIRD 
TO 
FIFTH 
CLASS 
MUNICIPALITIES SHALL APPROPRIATE FIVE HUNDRED PESOS 
(P500.00) PER MONTH PER BARANGAY NUTRITION WORKER. 
THE DIFFERENCE IN THE FIVE THOUSAND PESOS (P5,000.00) 
MONTHLY ALLOWANCE PER BARANGAY NUTRITION WORKER 
SHALL BE INCLUDED IN THE GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT 
(GAA) FOR THE YEAR FOLLOWING ITS ENACTMENT. 
 
 
SECTION 2. Separability Clause. - If any of the provisions or part of this 
Act is declared unconstitutional or invalid, the other provisions or parts 
thereof not affected thereby shall continue to be in full force and effect. 
 
SECTION 3. Repealing Clause.- All laws, decrees, executive orders, or any 
part thereof which are inconsistent with this Act, are hereby repealed or 
modified accordingly. 
 
SECTION 4. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect upon publication in the 
Official Gazette or in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation 
 
Approved,