This chapter examines the recent evolution and characteristics of state-sponsored CFM programmes in six countries of the Asia-Pacific region: India, Nepal, Cambodia, Viet Nam, the Philippines and Indonesia. These countries were selected on two grounds: they represent a wide geographical span, and they illustrate different government-sponsored CFM programmes in diverse stages of development that range from the relatively progressive, for example, in terms of access to forest resources and ownership rights (Nepal, Cambodia and the Philippines), and programmes trying to address issues of indigenous and traditional forest dwellers (Indonesia and India with its Forest Rights Act), to programmes where legislation is in place but CFM is being developed on a pilot basis before a national CFM programme is put in place, such as in Viet Nam.