Understanding FATA – V

Project Summary

Backed by tremendously encouraging response, Understanding FATA-Volume V is currently underway and is due to be launched in Islamabad in January 2012. The Understanding FATA-Volume V will include an opinion poll of 4,000 residents and a series of focus group discussionsacross all agencies in FATA. The report will document the change of opinions since the last survey and take stock of the last four polls through both quantitative and qualitative analysis. With support from the British High Commission, the Project started on June 2011.

CAMP has been conducting opinion polls with the residents of FATA since 2007. This series of polls has been possible due to CAMP’s acceptability in the FATA region, and the trust it has gained among the local communities. The polls have brought forward views on wide-ranging issues including governance, religion and society, human rights and the international community – opinions that the outside world knows little about. While several surveys have been conducted in FATA, this is the first time that an opinion of a cross-section of society was taken on such a wide range of issues. The size of the sample population itself, as well as the subject matter makes ‘Understanding FATA’ an innovative project that allows the people of FATA to speak for themselves.



Understanding FATA Volume V, like the first four volumes is a sincere attempt to provide a better understanding of what the people of FATA want, and what they think of issues that concern them. The thoughts and feelings expressed through the opinion poll in which 4,000 men and women across seven tribal agencies and six frontier regions will take part, will eventually influence policy decisions within Pakistan and abroad.

For more details and PDF versions of Understanding FATA Volumes I-IV, please visit: http://www.understandingfata.org