The official page of the Barangay Integrated Development Approach for Nutrition Improvement (BIDANI) Network Program.
The BIDANI Network Program is a comprehensive nutrition-in-development strategy emphasizing the need to mainstream improving the nutrition of Filipinos towards achieving sustainable development.
14/10/2025
🌧️ Rain or shine, service continues! 💪✨
Despite the rainy weather yesterday, BIDANI Network Program, in collaboration with Barangay Mayondon and the National Service Training Program sections of the UPLB College of Human Ecology and College of Arts and Sciences, successfully conducted BMIS data collection in Mayondon, Los Baños, Laguna.
A heartfelt thank you to the dedicated barangay personnel and NSTP-Civic Welfare Training Service faculty and students who braved the rain and showed true BIDANI spirit in action — working together for healthier and more empowered communities! 💚🌱
10/10/2025
10/10/2025
🎉 BIDANI Network Program Wins 3rd Place as Outstanding Extension Project! 🏆
We’re proud to share that the University of the Philippines Los Baños BIDANI Network Program was awarded 3rd Place for the Outstanding Extension Project at the 2025 National Extension Conference held at Cavite State University! 🇵🇭✨
This recognition from the Philippine Extension and Advisory Services Network, Inc.-phileasnet, PAEPI CALABARZON, and Cavite State University celebrates exemplary initiatives that create real impact in communities through innovation, responsive action, and strong stakeholder partnerships.
💚 Through BIDANI, we continue to bridge science and community action — empowering barangays toward better nutrition, governance, and community development.
18/09/2025
✨Congratulations, Dr. Josefa S. Eusebio !✨
Honored with Gaward Sulo during the 24th Bañamos Festival of the Municipality of Los Baños, Dr. Eusebio is a true pioneer of Nutrition-In-Development in the Philippines.
From her early work in 1978 as the driving force behind the Nutrition Improvement Model (NIM) at UPLB, she laid the groundwork for what would become the Barangay Integrated Development Approach for Nutrition Improvement — BIDANI Network Program.
Under her leadership, NIM evolved into BIDANI in 1984, expanding its reach across State Universities and Colleges (SUCs), barangays, and local government units to strengthen nutrition-sensitive community development. Her vision helped institutionalize the BIDANI innovative strategies, empowering communities with data, planning capacity, and agency.
Beyond program design, Dr. Eusebio’s impact extended through SIKAP BIDANI and the BIDANI Development Foundation, Inc. supporting local development.
Here’s to you — a pillar, mentor, dreamer, and change-maker. Your legacy continues to inspire every barangay, every student, and every partner in BIDANI. 🌱💚
01/09/2025
Habang hinihintay ang simula ng Tuklas UPLB Season 11, balikan muna natin ang ating mga nakaraang episodes!
Sa Season 9, Episode 3 ng Tuklas UPLB, ipinaliwanag ni BIDANI Program Leader Dr. Clarissa Juanico ang kahalagahan ng wastong nutrisyon sa bawat pamayanan.
Bisitahin ang YouTube channel para sa full episodes ng Tuklas UPLB!
22/08/2025
🎉 Day 5 | BIDANI Training of Trainers for Bohol Island State University – Culmination Day 🎉
Five days of learning, sharing, and collaboration have come to a meaningful close! 🌟
Today’s sessions focused on Action Planning, where participants crafted concrete strategies to bring the Barangay Integrated Development Approach for Nutrition Improvement (BIDANI) closer to their communities. They also learned about monitoring and evaluation to ensure that plans lead to measurable change. 📊✨
From mastering the BMIS web-app to applying futures thinking and designing actionable plans, our trainees from the 6 BISU campuses (Main, Balilihan, Bilar, Calape, Candijay, and Clarin) and UP Visayas COP BIDANI have grown into future-ready advocates for nutrition and community development. 💚
This is just the beginning! Together, we move forward; empowered, inspired, and committed to making every barangay healthier and more resilient. 🌱
21/08/2025
🌟 Day 4 | BIDANI Training of Trainers for Bohol Island State University 🌟
From knowledge to action! 🚀
Today, participants took a big step forward as they explored the Implementation of the Barangay Integrated Development Plan (BIDP) and Nutrition Interventions. 📝💡
Through dynamic discussions and practical insights, the trainees from the 6 BISU campuses (Main, Balilihan, Bilar, Calape, Candijay, and Clarin) and UP Visayas COP BIDANI learned how to translate data and strategies into concrete community action plans (BIDP) that address local nutrition challenges.
💚 Day 4 emphasized one clear message: good plans, when put into action, can transform communities for the better.
With energy and commitment running high, our future trainers are now ready to bring BIDANI closer to the barangay level, making nutrition everyone’s mission. 🌱✨
20/08/2025
🔍 Day 3 | BIDANI Training of Trainers for Bohol Island State University 🔍
Today was all about turning data into action and envisioning the future! 🌱✨
📊 Participants deepened their skills in Nutrition and Situational Analysis using the Barangay Management Information System (BMIS) — learning how to navigate the BMIS web-app and generate valuable data to guide evidence-based planning and decision-making.
🔮 The day wrapped up with a workshop on Futures Thinking, where participants explored concepts on multiple futures and forward-looking strategies to make BIDANI more resilient and responsive to emerging challenges.
From mastering tools to shaping foresight, Day 3 empowered our trainees to become data-driven and future-ready advocates for community nutrition improvement. 💚
19/08/2025
🌟 Day 2 | BIDANI Training of Trainers for Bohol Island State University (BISU)🌟
The momentum continues! 🚀
Today’s sessions focused on three essentials in strengthening BIDANI implementation:
🗂️ Administrative and Logistics in BIDANI – ensuring efficient systems and support for efficient and sustained program operations
🤝 Social Mobilization – uniting SUCs, LGUs, and communities for collective nutrition action.
📊 Nutrition & Situational Analysis through BMIS – leveraging data to guide barangay-level planning and decision-making.
Participants from the 6 BISU campuses (Main, Balilihan, Bilar, Calape, Candijay, and Clarin) and UP Visayas COP BIDANI worked together to explore how people’s participation, evidence-based analysis, and strong organizational systems can make nutrition governance more effective.
Day 2 highlighted one key truth: when communities are mobilized, guided by data, and supported by strong systems, real change becomes possible. 🌱💚
19/08/2025
🌟 Day 1 | BIDANI Training of Trainers for Bohol Island State University (BISU)🌟
The journey has begun! 🚀
August 18, 2025 marks the opening of the 5-day Training of Trainers on BIDANI for BISU.
With the participation of the 6 campuses of BISU (Main, Balilihan, Bilar, Calape, Candijay, and Clarin) and the new members of University of the Philippines Visayas COP-BIDANI, Day 1 set the tone for a week of learning, collaboration, and commitment to community nutrition improvement.
📸 A great start filled with inspiration, knowledge-sharing, and the shared goal of building healthier, empowered communities. 💚
15/08/2025
⭐️BIDANI Meets with the Municipality of Los Baños⭐️
The BIDANI Network Program, led by Dr. Clarissa Juanico, paid a courtesy call to Hon. Neil Andrew N. Nocon, Mayor of Los Baños, Laguna. Together with the BIDANI Team is the Municipal Nutrition Action Officer of Los Baños, Madeleine Alforja, RND.
This visit sets the stage for the implementation of BIDANI in Los Baños and across Laguna, made possible through our partnership with DILG-Laguna. Together, we move forward in building healthier, better-nourished communities! 🌱✨
12/08/2025
💥 Mga KaPSND! We are opening ADDITIONAL 30 SLOTS FOR ONSITE, AND EXTENDED REGISTRATION FOR ONLINE PARTICIPATION! 💥
🎉 Take advantage of these and be part of the 2025 PSND Convention with Learning Exchange Visits:
🟢 Onsite Participation: PHP 4,000.00
🟡 Online Access for Regular and Students: PHP 1,500.00
📅 When: September 3–4, 2025
📍 Where: Umali Auditorium, SEARCA, UP Los Baños, Laguna
Deadline to register:
for ONSITE: AUGUST 23, 2025 or until slots are available
for ONLINE: AUGUST 28, 2025
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The Barangay Integrated Development Approach for Nutrition Improvement (BIDANI) is a comprehensive nutrition-in-development strategy emphasizing the need to mainstream improving the nutrition of Filipinos towards achieving rural development.
BIDANI traces its roots in the Nutrition Improvement Model (NIM) formulated in 1978 by the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB). It was an action research program funded by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), German World Hunger Assistance Program, National Nutrition Council (NNC), and the then National Science and Technology Authority (NSTA). Starting with six rural barangays with varying agro-ecological settings in five municipalities and one city in the provinces of Laguna and Batangas, it then expanded to 12 more barangays in 1980, and an additional 50 barangays in 11 east Laguna towns in 1984.
In 1984, the NIM evolved into BIDANI. The following year, 1985, BIDANI as a network program composed of various state colleges and universities (SUCs) across the Philippines was established. Starting with five SUCs that were trained to replicate the BIDANI strategy through research and project activities, the network kickstarted with funding support from the National Nutrition Council (NNC) and Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD). These two agencies funded the program from 1986 to 1989.
To strengthen the network program, which is now composed of seven SUCs, a five-year bilateral assessment grant was granted by the Netherlands Government Directorate for Development Cooperation (DGIS). Phase I was conducted from 1990 to 1991, while Phase 2 commenced in 1996 and lasted until 2000, owing to the exemplary performance of the SUCs.
In the year 2000, the University of the Philippines Board of Regents (BOR) formally institutionalized BIDANI in UPLB and UP Visayas during the Board’s 1144th Meeting on 31 August 2000. The Board’s resolution cites BIDANI as a demonstration of “the technical assistance and leadership UP provides in strengthening the extension mandate of sister academic institutions of higher learning around the country.”
As of August 2017, there are 12 member SUCs under the BIDANI Network Program – including UPLB, which serves as the national coordinator – spanning 938 barangays in eight cities and 30 municipalities, 10 provinces, and nine regions throughout the Philippines.
BIDANI serves as the academe’s unique and continuing contribution to national development, owing to the sustainability of the BIDANI strategy. On the side of governance, it enables local leaders and their people to appropriately intervene directly and indirectly in solving problems regarding nutrition and development through the Barangay Integrated Development Approach (BIDA). It also institutionalizes effective and efficient development program planning and implementation through the Barangay Management Information System (BMIS). In terms of its nutrition components, BIDANI contributes to the reduction of malnutrition prevalence in barangays covered by the network program through the Participative Nutrition Enhancement Approach (PNEA).
