The Regional Nutrition Committee (RNC) as the policy making and coordinating body on nutrition at the regional level leads its 4th regular meeting held at Bangsamoro Planning and Development Authority (BPDA) Conference Room last October 5, 2021. The main agenda of this meeting includes the approved resolution of Bangsamoro Economic and Development Council (BEDC) Resolution No. 12 series of 2021, entitled Creating the Regional Nutrition Committee of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao under the Social Development Committee of BEDC and the final draft of RNC Resolution No.4 series of 2021 entitled Approving of the Regional Nutrition Committee to serve as a Home – Grown School Feeding (HGSF) Inter – Agency Committee in support of Republic Act No. 11037 Otherwise known as the “Masustansyang Pagkain Para sa Batang Pilipino Act”.

NPC Sinolinding proposes to the body to review and enhance the content of the BEDC resolution No. 12 especially to add MOH as the cluster head of Health and nutrition and MOST for  Research and Development . He points out that these major ministries have a big role in improving the health and nutrition of the Bangsamoro children. 

Present in the meeting were the permanent focal persons from the Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Indigenous People (MIPA), Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Energy (MENRE), Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform (MAFAR), Ministry of Human Settlements and Development (MHSD), Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBTHE), Ministry of Public and Safety (MPOS), Ministry of Social Services and  Development (MSSD), Bangsamoro Planning and Development Authority (BPDA), Ministry of Transportation and Communication (MOTC), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Program (WFP), Ministry of Interior and Local Government (MILG).