Philippines

The Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) serves as the country's framework for nutrition action and basis for collaboration among stakeholders. It is further guided by a results framework reflecting interventions to be implemented by various agencies, development partners and other stakeholders. At the subnational level, nutrition action plans have been formulated that are aligned with the PPAN. The National Nutrition Council will continue to conduct activities to mobilize local government units (LGUs) to sustain efforts to increase investment for nutrition through the formulation of local nutrition action plans.

Capacity-building projects have been developed to strengthen country capacity and nutrition governance through the peer learning approach, including the Nutrition Champions Project, the Nutrition Shepherding Project, the Learning Hub for Enhanced and Revitalized Nutrition Project and the Nutrition Leadership Governance Course for elected local chief executives. The country will sustain these activities to advocate for and facilitate the sharing of knowledge and experiences related to nutrition programme management and to inspire each other to invest in nutrition.

The governance systems and structures in the Philippines at national and subnational levels have been in place since the 1970s. Other indications of institutionalization at the national level include the regular formulation of the national nutrition plan as part of the national development planning system every six years and the updating of the plan midway through the development cycle. Monitoring and evaluation mechanisms are in place to ensure that identified commitments are implemented. Membership in the national and subnational Multi-Stakeholder Platform are both inclusive and holistic. In 2022, 14 of 17 regions were able to form subnational SUN Networks.