The two-day joint meeting focused on the important roles of these national associations to ensure that the Local Government Units’ (province, city, municipality, barangay) nutrition action are formulated, budgeted, correctly implemented, monitored and evaluated in order to contribute to the achievement of the outcome and sub-outcome targets of the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition 2017-2022.

The main topics discussed during the meeting are the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition 2017-2022, the Philippine Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition, National Dietary Supplementation Program, guidelines for providing medical and survivorship assistance to barangay nutrition scholars, and the draft guidelines on the Barangay Nutrition Scholars Program.

The three national associations also coordinated their business meetings separately.