In local markets of ASEAN Member States (AMS), biodiversity-based products (BBPs) such as natural cosmetics, pharmaceutical and health-supplement products, additives, handicraft, and other non-timber forest products are common. To help the AMS develop and promote BBPs for national, regional, and possibly international markets, the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) and the GIZ-GFA Consulting Group began the implementation of the project, Biodiversity-based Products as an Economic Source for the Improvement of Livelihood and Biodiversity Protection in 2015 with support from the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of Germany. The project was conducted in buffer zones of ASEAN Heritage Parks (AHPs), specifically Nam Ha National Protected Area in Lao PDR, Ba Be National Park and Hoang Lien National Park in Viet Nam, and the community protected area of Phnom Kulen National Park in Cambodia.
