It highlights a comprehensive nutrition-in-development strategy to mainstream the improvement of Filipino nutrition towards rural development.

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 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).