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First Regular Session 
SENATE 
Senate Bill No. 903 
INTRODUCED BY SEN. JINGGOY EJERCITO ESTRADA 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Presidential Decree No. 1569 was issued in 1978 to strengthen the 
country's nutrition program by initiating a project that will provide for a barangay 
nutrition worker in every barangay. This enactment has for its primary purpose 
the establishment of a network reaching the grassroots level that will address the 
problem of malnutrition. 
But even while this program is instrumental in the 
significant reduction of malnutrition in recent years, a large percentage of the 
population still do not get enough to eat. Hence, there is still a need to further 
strengthen the agency responsible for implementing the mandate of bringing 
about a well-nourished population -
that is economically productive, socially 
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active thus capable of contributing significantly to national development. 
This bill provides for the creation and filing up of one mandatory position of 
Barangay Nutrition Worker in every barangay. It further seeks to professionalize 
the position of BNW by requiring the qualification be at least a high school 
graduate. 
Approval of this bill is therefore most earnestly urged. 


FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC 
OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
SENATE 
Senate Bill No. 903 
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INTRODUCED BY SEN. JINGGOY EJERCITO ESTRADA 
AN ACT 
CREATING THE POSITION OF BARAN GAY NUTRITION WORKER IN EVERY 
BARAN GAY 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.O. No. 1569) entitled "Stren!;Jthening the Barangay Nutrition Program by 
proving for a Nutrition Scholar in Every Barangay" is hereby amended to read as 
follows: 
"SECTION 1. BARAN GAY NUTRITION PROGRAM. To strengthen 
the Barangay Nutrition Program, there shall be CREATED under the 
administration and SUPERVISION of the NATIONAL NUTRITION 
COUNCIL IN COORDINATION WITH THE CITY or MUNICIPALITY and 
the BARAN GAY, ONE (1) MANDATORY POSITION OF BARAN GAY 
NUTRITION WORKER IN EVERY BARANGAY WITH A MONTHLY 
ALLOWANCE OF NOT LESS THAN TWO THOUSAND PESOS 
(P2,OOO.OO). 
SECTION 2. BARANGAY NUTRITION WORKER. The Barangay 
Nutrition Worker shall be APPOINTED BY THE MAYOR WITH THE 
CONCURRENCE OF THE MAJORITY OF ALL SANGGUNIANG BAYAN 
OR THE SANGGUNIANG Panlunsod MEMBERS, THE SANGGUNIANG 
BARAN GAY 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. 
SECTION 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 HISIHER PERFORMANCE AND 
MAKE 
THE 
NECESSARY 
RECOMMENDATION 
FOR 
HIS/HER 
APPOINTMENT. 


SECTION 4. QUALIFICATION. The qualifications of a Barangay 
Nutrition Worker shall be as follows: 
a. 
Bonafide resident of the barangay for at least one (1) 
year, with ability to speak the dialect; 
b. 
Possession of leadership potentials 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) HIGHSCHOOL graduate; 
e. 
Physical and mental fitness and; 
f. 
At least eighteen (18) years old but not more than sixty 
(60) years old. 
SECTION 5. RECRUITMENT. The barangay nutrition worker shall 
be recruited from within the barangay and shall be tested on mental ability 
and proper work attitude. 
SECTION 6. 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. 
SECTION 7. BENEFITS. The Barangay Nutrition Worker shall be 
entitled to a training stipend, meal and travel allowance of at least P120.00 
a day. DURING THE PERIOD OF VOLUNTEER SERVICE PRIOR TO 
HIS/HER 
APPOINTMENT, 
THEY 
SHALL 
BE 
ENTITLED 
TO 
ALLOWANCE OF ONE THOUSAND PESOS (P1 ,000.00) A MONTH. 
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. 
SECTION 8. INCENTIVES. TO FURTHER ENHANCE THE PROGRAM, 
THE NATIONAL NUTRITION COUNCIL, IN COORDINATION WITH THE 
DEPARTMENT 
OF 
EDUCATION 
SHALL 
FORMULATE 
A 
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM WHERE INCUMBENT AND DESERVING 
BARAN GAY 
NUTRITION 
WORKERS 
SHALL 
BE 
GIVEN 
THE 
OPPORTUNITY TO AVAIL OF A SCHOLARSHIP GRANT IN ANY STATE 
COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY AND PURSUE A COURSE RELEVANT TO 
HIS/HER PRESENT POSITION. 
SECTION 9. 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. 


SECTION 10. LOCAL TRAINING TEAM. The local training team of the 
municipality shall be composed of two members chosen from among the 
members of the Municipal Nutrition Committee. This team shall follow up 
the activities of the trained barangay nutrition worker. 
SECTION 11. ROLE OF THE MAYOR. The Municipal/City Mayor shall 
initiate activities to implement this project within the municipality, 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. 
SECTION 
12. 
BARANGAY 
NUTRITION 
WORKERS 
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. 
SECTION 13. NATIONAL NUTRITION COUNCIL. The National Nutrition 
Council shall formulate rules and regulations, plans and programs within 
the limits set forth in this Act, 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. 
SECTION 14. DONATIONS. For the purposes of this Program, the 
National Nutrition Council and the local govemments, are authorized to 
receive grants, donations, gifts or bequests from various govemment 
agencies and government corporations which shall be tax exempt. 
SECTION 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 amount 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 
FIVE HUNDRED PESOS (P500.00) PER MONTH PER BARAN GAY 
NUTRITION WORKER, PROVIDED FURTHER, THAT THIRD TO FIFTH 
CLASS MUNICIPALITIES SHALL APPROPRIATE THREE HUNDRED 
PESOS 
(P300.00) 
PER 
MONTH 
PER 
BARAN GAY 
NUTRITION 
WORKER. 
THE DIFFERENCE IN THE TWO THOUSAND PESOS (P2,OOO.OO) 
MONTHLY ALLOWANCE PER BARANGAY NUTRITION WORKER 
SHALL BE INCLUDED IN THE GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT 
(GAA) FOR THE YEAR FOLLOWING ITS ENACTMENT. 
SEC. 2. Separability Clause. If any of the provisions or part of this Act is 
declared unconstitutional or invalid, the other provisions or parts hereof not 
affected thereby shall continue to be in full force and effect. 
SEC. 3. 
Repealing Clause. All laws, decrees, executive orders or any 
part thereof which are inconsistent with this Act, are hereby repealed or modified 
accordingly. 


SEC. 4. Effectivity. This Act shall take effect upon publication in the 
Official Gazette or in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved,