This report seeks to highlight the potential of FRA, assess its achievements, identify the bottlenecks, and find the ways forward. Its objectives are to: Make a quantitative estimate of forest land that has the potential to be recognized as CFR area, and compare it to the actual forest area recognized as CFRs across the country; Assess the qualitative potential of FRA for gender equal development, poverty alleviation, climate change and biodiversity conservation; Compile the progress of recognition of other major rights under FRA, such as IFR, CR and habitat rights; Identify the major institutional and procedural bottlenecks in FRA implementation; and Identify the ways forward.