Barangay Nutrition Scholar Program Establishment

Section 2 defines the barangay nutrition scholar as a barangay-based volunteer worker.
Section 2 requires the barangay nutrition scholar to deliver nutrition services and other related activities, including community health, backyard food production, environmental sanitation, culture, mental feeding, and family planning.
Section 3 provides that the barangay nutrition scholar serves the barangay on a voluntary basis for at least a period of one year while continuously learning under the program.

Section 4 requires the barangay nutrition scholar to be a bonafide resident in the barangay for at least four (4) years, with the ability to speak the dialect.
Section 4 requires leadership potentials and the initiative and willingness to serve the barangay for at least one (1) year.
Section 4 requires the scholar to be willing to learn and to teach what he has learned to barangay people.
Section 4 requires the scholar to be at least a primary school graduate.
Section 4 requires physical and mental fitness.
Section 4 sets the age requirement at at least eighteen (18) years old but not more than sixty (60) years old.
Section 5 provides that the barangay nutrition scholar is recruited from within the barangay.
Section 5 requires testing for mental ability and proper work attitude.

Section 6 grants the barangay nutrition scholar a civil service eligibility equivalent to second grade after completing at least two years of continuous and satisfactory service in the barangay.
Section 6 provides a training stipend, kit and travel allowance of at least P120.00 a year.
Section 6 allows additional allowances granted by the municipality but not exceeding P150.00 a month.

Section 7 requires that before actual barangay service, the barangay nutrition scholar undergo a ten-day training.
Section 7 requires the ten-day training to cover selected topics such as nutrition, health, food production and environmental sanitation.
Section 7 requires the training to be based on defined task expectations.
Section 7 provides that the ten-day training is conducted by a provincial training team in coordination with the municipal and the barangay nutrition committees.
Section 7 requires supplementation by a twenty-day practicum conducted in the barangay where the scholar is assigned.
Section 7 requires the practicum to be in coordination with a local training team.

Section 8 makes implementation the total responsibility of a Provincial/City Nutrition Committee and a Municipal Nutrition Committee.
Section 8 provides that the Provincial/City Nutrition Committee is headed by the Governor/City Mayor as Chairman.
Section 8 provides that the Municipal Nutrition Committee is headed by the Mayor as Chairman.
Section 9 requires the local training team of the municipality to be composed of two (2) members chosen from among members of the Municipal Nutrition Committee.
Section 9 requires the local training team to follow up the activities of the trained barangay nutrition scholar.

Section 10 requires the Provincial Governor/City Mayor to be responsible for the program throughout the province/city.
Section 10 allows the Provincial Governor/City Mayor to recommend the appropriation by the province/city of an amount sufficient to support the program.
Section 11 requires the Municipal Mayor to initiate activities to implement the project within the municipality.
Section 11 requires the Municipal Mayor to organize the local training teams.
Section 11 allows the Municipal Mayor to recommend the appropriation by the municipality of a local counterpart in the form of additional allowances for the barangay nutrition scholar.

Section 12 establishes a Barangay Nutrition Scholars Staff Secretariat in every province/city.
Section 12 requires the staff secretariat to monitor the progress of the program, identify problems, and recommend possible solutions.
Section 13 requires the National Nutrition Council to formulate rules and regulations and plans and programs within the limits set by the decree for successful implementation.
Section 13 requires the National Nutrition Council to allocate funds for the project to various provinces and/or agencies for disbursement in accordance with the financial plan of the Barangay Nutrition Scholars Project.

Section 14 authorizes the National Nutrition Council and local governments to receive grants, donations, gifts, or bequests for purposes of the program.
Section 14 authorizes donations specifically from various government agencies and government corporations.
Section 14 provides that such grants, donations, gifts or bequests from those entities are tax exempt.
Section 15 appropriates One Million Pesos out of any available funds from the National Treasury or from the Special Activities Funds for organization and initial operation of the Council and the local governments for the program.
Section 15 authorizes local governments to appropriate such amount necessary for successful implementation of the program.

Section 16 provides that the decree takes effect immediately.
The decree is dated June 11, 1978 and was done in the City of Manila on the 11th day of June, 1978.