UNDERSTANDING FATA VOLUME IV LAUNCHED (DEC, 2010)

The Community Appraisal & Motivation Programme (CAMP) is pleased to launch ‘Understanding FATA Volume IV: Attitudes Towards Governance, Religion and Society in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas.’

The fourth opinion poll conducted in 2010, similar to the polls from 2008 and 2009, draws upon the views and feelings of the people in seven agencies and six frontier regions of FATA; opening a whole new window on the region and its people.

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Community Appraisal & Motivation Programme (CAMP) has been conducting opinion polls of the people of FATA since 2007. That work produces the ‘Understanding FATA’ series. The goal of this series is to reveal the thinking and the opinions of the people so that policy makers and influential actors in government, civil society, the international community, academics, journalists and the broader Pakistani citizenry will have useful, actionable information. This 2010 edition of ‘Understanding FATA’ is a comprehensive assessment of perceptions that the people of FATA have in several key policy areas including governance, society, religion and politics.

The descriptive material has been expanded to provide the reader with a more detailed understanding of contemporary FATA and the people living there. The statistical work is more than a dry compilation of opinions; the data is woven into the culture, the historic background, the national changes in policy and the ever changing historical currents coursing through and around FATA. The goal is to convey the opinions so that their aspirations and frustrations can be known from the people’s perspective. (Read More)