Republic of the Philippines

Department of Health
NATIONAL NUTRITION COUNCIL

Checklist for Functional Barangay Nutrition Committees 1

As of _____________________________

City/Municipality: _____________________ Barangay:__________________________

Province: ___________________________

Instructions: Please check each appropriate indicator if present or being done by the Barangay Nutrition Committee
(BNC). After completing the assessment, please submit to NNC-Region III secretariat.
Key Activities
(1)
Capacity Development
Program Planning
1. Organization/Re-Organization/
Strengthening of BNC
2. Conduct of Nutritional Assessment
3. Formulation of nutrition action plan
4. Resource Generation and Mobilization
5. Delivery of nutrition and related services
(e.g. counselling on breastfeeding,
organization of breastfeeding support
groups, conduct of nutrition education
activities, vitamin A and iron
supplementation to preschool children
and pregnant women; distribution of
seeds, seedlings, fingerlings and small
animals to families with underweight
children; supplementary feeding)
Indicators __________
(2)
a. Barangay Nutrition Scholar/s completed
training on Basic Course for Barangay
Nutrition Scholar
a. Meetings regularly held at least once
every quarter presided by the Punong
Barangay or designated representative
b. Minutes of meetings documented and
filed
a. OPT Plus and school weighing report
updated
b. Nutrition situation report prepared
a. Nutrition Action Plan (NAP) integrated
into the local development plan with
budget
b. NAP integrated into the Annual
Investment Plan
a. Funds allocated and expended for
nutrition and related activities from
annual budget
a. Targeted groups provided with nutrition
and related interventions

6. Monitoring and Evaluation a. Monitoring visits conducted and

documented at least twice a year

Accomplished by: ________________________

Position/Designation: _____________________
Date: _______________

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Assessment of the functionality of BNC held during the ___________________________.

Province: __________________________
Total number of municipalities: ________
Instructions: Please fill up column 3 with the names of all the municipalities. Check each appropriate indicator if present or being done by the LGU. To get the total number of functional MNCs,
count the municipalities with check on all indicators.
Key Activities
(1)
Capacity Development
Program Planning
1. Organization/Re-Organization/
Strengthening of MNC
2. Conduct of Nutritional
Assessment
3. Formulation of nutrition action
plan
4. Resource Generation and
Mobilization
Republic of the Philippines Provincial Form
Department of Health
NATIONAL NUTRITION COUNCIL
Checklist for Functional Municipal Nutrition Committees (MNCs)
As of _________________________
Region: _____________________________
Total number of functional MNCs: _______
Name of Municipality
Indicator
(3)
(2)
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____
a. Members of local nutrition committee
trained/completed training on Nutrition
Program Management
a. Meetings regularly held at least once every
quarter presided by the mayor or designated
representative
b. Minutes of meetings documented and filed
a. OPT Plus & school weighing report updated
b. Nutrition situation report prepared
a. NAP integrated into the local development plan
with budget
b. NAP integrated into the Annual Investment Plan
a. Funds allocated and expended for nutrition and
related activities from annual budget
Delivery of nutrition and related a. Targeted groups provided with nutrition
services (e.g. counselling on and related interventions
breastfeeding, organization of
breastfeeding support groups,
conduct of nutrition education
activities, vitamin A and iron
supplementation to preschool
children and pregnant women;
distribution of seeds, seedlings,
fingerlings and small animals to
families with underweight
children; supplementary feeding)
Monitoring and Evaluation a. Monitoring visits conducted and
documented at least twice a year
b. Quarterly monitoring report prepared and
submitted to Provincial Nutrition Office
c. Program Implementation Review conducted
at least once a year with documentation and
submitted to Provincial Nutrition Office