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Communities for Change
Policies for FATA are made at the Federal level, leaving very little opportunity for the people of FATA to voice their needs and demands. And although the Government of Pakistan is taking steps to increase development spending in FATA, there is a need to facilitate and create a sustained and viable grassroots movement, which would assert and protect the social, political and economic rights of the people.
With support from the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, CAMP initiated a 21- month project in May 2009, titled 'Communities for Change'. The objective of this project is to empower the people of FATA to claim and defend their social, political and economic rights, as well as actively develop their resilience to sectarian and inter-tribal conflict and influences.
The project will form and strengthen a sustained network of Community Based Organisations (CBOs) of local leadership in FATA, and build grassroots level capacity to tackle issues that are contributing to poor governance, underdevelopment, radicalization, deteriorating law & order, and violation of human rights, through partnership and networks. The project strategy will be CAMP's underlying strategy in all its work: to encourage active participation from all community members without any discrimination.
The foundation of the project was laid by identifying CBOs where they existed, and forming new CBOs where there were weak or did not exist. With 102 CBOs selected by November 2009, a three day consultative workshop was held with members of CBOs to identify their needs and gaps, on which CAMP's capacity building programme will be built. The training programme is due to start in January 2009, and will focus on the following areas: human rights and democracy, advocacy and lobbying skills, effective communication and presentation skills, project management and leadership, and conflict resolution.
The Project will continue to support and enhance advocacy efforts through consultative dialogues, IEC (information, education and communication) material, reports and a monthly newsletter. For latest updates, please see 'Voices from FATA' the Project's monthly newsletter.
"Peshawar: Eminent speakers stressed upon the need for a special law on women trafficking for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that would address the issue holistically. 
Peshawar: Parliamentarians from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly have promised a law that will address the issue of women trafficking in KPK holistically. These views were expressed at a day long consultative workshop on countering women trafficking aimed for provincial...
In order to initiate small scale community based advocacy oriented projects/activities in different areas of Khyber Agency, agreements were signed between 32 Community Based Organizations of Khyber Agency and Community Appraisal and Motivation Programme (CAMP) in a...
In order to initiate small scale community based advocacy oriented projects/activities in different areas of Khyber Agency, agreements were signed between 32 Community Based Organizations of Khyber Agency and Community Appraisal and Motivation Programme (CAMP) in a...
A half day consultative meeting on Women Trafficking under the title "The Inter Institutional Referral System (IRS)" was organized by Community Appraisal & Motivation Programme (CAMP) on 26/06/2010.
A periodical networking meeting with the CBOs of Kurram Agency was held on 16th June, 2010 at Shalozan House, Parachinar. This activity was held under CAMP’s project, titled as “Communities for Change.” The event was attended by 73 participants who were representing 31...