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Introduced by SENATOR JINGGOY P. 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 active thus capable of contributing significantly to national development. 
This bill provides for the creation and filling up of one mandatory position of 
It further seeks to professionalize the 
Barangay Nutrition Worker in every Barangay. 
position of the BNW by requiring the qualification be at least a high school graduate. 
Approval of this bill is therefore most earnestly urged. 
EJERCITO ESTRADA 
Senator 


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S. B. No. 938 
Introduced by SENATOR JINGGOY P. EJERCITO ESTRADA 
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 the House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assem bled: 
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: 
"SECTION 1. BARANGAY 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 
BARANGAY, ONE (1) MANDATORY POSITION OF BARANGAY 
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 
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. 
SECTION 3. SERVICES. The barangay nutrition worker, while 
(continuously learning) UNDERGOING ACTUAL TRAINING under this 


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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 "HER 
PERFORMANCE and MAKE THE 
NECESSARY RECOMMENDATION FOR HISHER 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 (1) year); 
C. 
Willingness to learn and to teach what he/she has 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 the 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 a local 
training team. 


SECTION 7. BENEFITS. The Barangay Nutrition Worker shall be 
entitled to a training stipend, meal and travel allowance of at least P 120.00 a day. 
DURING THE PERIOD OF VOLUNTEER SERVICE 
PRIOR TO HIS/HER 
APPOINTMENT, THEY SHALL BE ENTITLED TO ALLOWANCE OF ONE 
THOUSAND PESOS (P1,OOO.OO) A MONTH. 
The Barangay Nutrition Worker shall be granted a civil service eligibility 
equivalent to second grade after the completion of at least two 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 
BARANGAY 
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 Mayoi- 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 1 1. 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 counter part 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, and 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 governments, are authorized to receive 
grants, donations, gifts or bequests from various government 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 fi-om 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 prograp. 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 
BARANGAY 
NUTRITION 
WOKI(ER,PROVIDED FURTHER, THAT THIRD TO FIFTH CLASS 
MUNICIPALITIES SHALL APPROPRIATE THREE HUNDRED PESOS 
(P300.00) PER MONTH PER BARANGAY NUTRITION WORKER. 
THE DIFFERENCE IN THE TWO THOUSAND PESOS (P 2,000.00) 
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 hereof 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, 
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