Lanao del Norte Governor Imelda Q. Dimaporo issued on September 19, 2016 her first nutrition policy through Executive Order No. 6 Series of 2016, “An Order Reorganizing and Reconstituting the Provincial Nutrition Committee of the Province of Lanao del Norte”. The EO specifically tasks the Provincial Nutrition Committee to ensure the effective and efficient management of the nutrition programs of the Province towards nutrition improvement of its constituents specially the marginalized and indigents.

The Lanao del Norte Provincial Nutrition Committee (LDNPNC) shall carry out the Provincial Nutrition Action Plan consistent with the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition. The nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive programs given priority under the EO include: infant and young child feeding, hunger mitigation and food production, water, sanitation and hygiene, food fortification, micronutrient supplementation, nutrition education and healthy lifestyle promotion.

The same EO gives a special function to the LDNPNC as in-charge of nutrition management during emergencies and disasters thereby acting at the same time as the Provincial Nutrition Cluster. PHO Dr. Melanie A. Untao acts as the Committee Vice Chairperson and was recently designated as the Provincial Nutrition Action Officer. Under the leadership of PNAO Untao, there will be created a  Technical Working Group composed of representatives from other provincial offices that will draft the three-year provincial nutrition action plan,  undertake regular monitoring visits and conduct the annual provincial MELLPI. 

To ensure operational efficiency, the fund support for operations of the LDNPNC shall be charged to mandated Bodies and from the Office of the Governor. Committee meetings were set every first Thursday of January, April, July and October with special meetings to be called by the Chairperson.