Republic of the Philippines

Cordillera Administrative Region

Province of Kalinga
City of Tabuk
Barangay ____________

RESOLUTION NO. ____ Series of 2023

RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10028,“THE EXPANDED PROMOTION OF

BREASTFEEDING ACT OF 2009” FOR BARANGAY _________________ FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 2023.

(Sponsored by Kagawad on Health ______________)

WHEREAS, under the Section 16 of the Republic Act 7160, otherwise known as the Local
Government Code of 1991, mandates all government units to promote the general welfare of its
inhabitants, provide basic services to the constituents;

WHEREAS, “Article XIII, Section 11 of the Constitution provides that the State shall adopt an
integrated and comprehensive approach to health development which shall endeavor to make
essential goods, health and other services available to all the people at affordable cost. There shall
be priority for the needs of the underprivileged, sick, elderly, disabled, women and children;

WHEREAS, adequate and proper nutrition is an important and universally recognized

component of each child’s right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health as
provided for in the United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child, which the Philippine
Senate, in accordance with its constitutional prerogative under Section 21, Article VII, of the 1987
Constitution, ratified on July 26, 1990, and which mandates the Philippines to implement various
international agreements relevant to Infant and Young Child Feeding;

WHEREAS, the use of breast milk which is widely recognized as the best nutrition for
babies, promotes the development of emotional bonding between the mother and child, bestows
upon the newborn infant protection against infection, provides the mother natural contraception
after delivery, and protects the mothers from closely spaced pregnancy;

WHEREAS, breastfeeding is the most far-reaching and the least costly strategy for the
alleviation of property;

WHEREAS, with the resultant healthier population and the reduction in infant and
underfive mortality rates, the country will be closer in reaching its targets for Sustainable
Development Goals;

WHEREAS, The implementation of a workplace lactation program which includes

“Rooming-In” area to all government and private health and non-health facilities for the
breastfeeding practices gives an opportunity to working mothers to express their duties by
breastfeeding in privacy. Furthermore, this will help ensure optimum health and proper nutrition
of their infants even while at work;
 WHEREAS, mothers want to nurture their child and our own policies in the country are in
full support to do so;

NOW THEREFORE, on the motion of Sanguniang Barangay member ______________, dully

seconded, it was;

RESOLVED, AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, to adopt the Republic Act No. 10028, “ The
Expanded Promotion of Breastfeeding Act of 2009” for the Barangay of __________________ for
Calendar Year 2023;

RESOLVED FINALLY,