This FPIC assessment takes off from a series of policy studies in the Philippine context by a team of researchers spearheaded by by the Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme for South and Southeast Asia (NTFP-EP) through the ASEAN Social Forestry Network supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples. Production of this material was made possible by DENR-FMB and the German-Development Cooperation-Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.