Foreword 2 018 marks a special year in terms of commemorating key landmark reform legislations in the Philippines: 30 years of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL), 21 years of the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA), and 20 years of the Philippines Fisheries Code (PFC). These land and resource tenure reforms were instituted in response to the clamor by different sectors – farmers and farmworkers, indigenous cultural communities, and small fisherfolk. Twenty to 30 years signal the passing of a generation. Thus, questions are now raised on how well government has implemented these reforms and social justice programs. Moreover, there are uncertainties as to how responsive these State policies have been to the realities faced by sectors of the rural poor. It is in this context that ANGOC, in partnership with AR Now! (Peoples Campaign for Agrarian Reform), PAFID (Philippine Association for Intercultural Development) and NFR (NGOs for Fisheries Reform), coordinated the process of formulating the “State of Land and Resource Tenure Reform in the Philippines: 2018”. This report specifically aims to: n assess the extent of implementation of asset reform laws, in particular the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA) and Philippines Fisheries Code (PFC); n identify emerging issues in their implementation; and, n recommend measures or reforms to effectively implement such reform programs. Fittingly, this report comes 10 years after PhilDHRRA (Philippine Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Areas) first published the 2008 Philippine Asset Report Card – a performance review of asset reform implementation from the perspective of beneficiaries, using a multi-stage sampling design. This 2018 status report took on a simpler, participatory approach. The formulation process of this study involved a series of focus group discussions 12 Status of Land and Resource Tenure Reform in the Philippines 2018