As the Regional Nutrition Committee continue its efforts to mitigate malnutrition and scaling up its Regional Plan of Action for Nutrition 2020-2022, the committee holds its 3rd quarterly meeting via virtual platform last August 20, 2021. The main agenda of the meeting includes, Orientation on the 2021 Guidelines of Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) and presentations of 2 RNC Resolutions, the Reconstitution of the Regional Nutrition Committee to serve as the Home-Grown School Feeding Inter- Agency Committee for the implementation of RA 111037 known as “ Masustansyang Pagkain para sa Batang Pilipino Act” and Adoption of the Executive Order 005 Series of 2020 on the Creation of Bangsamoro Food Sufficiency Task Force to Harmonize the Nutrition Programs of RPAN 2020-2022. 

Mr.Tohammi Abas of the Ministry of the Interior and Local Government discussed the salient features of RA 11292 and the 2021 proposed criteria of SGLG. He added to consult the committee for the updating of criteria particularly on the health assessment area.

RNC secretariat presided the meeting and presented the 2 resolutions. It was agreed to review further the said resolutions and that secretariat will expect the additional inputs from the RNC members on or before September 7, 2021.

Present in the meeting were the permanent focal persons from the Bangsamoro Transition Authority, Bangsamoro Planning and Development Authority, Ministry of the Interior and Local Government, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Agrarian Reform, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education, Ministry of Labor and Employment, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Trade, Investment and Tourism, Ministry of Indigenous Peoples Affair, Bangsamoro Sports Commission, Bangsamoro Youth Commission, Ministry of Public Order and Safety, Ministry of Human Settlement and Development, Bangsamoro Information Office, Bangsamoro Women Commission, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and World Food Programme.