Activities

The series of five roundtables on ‘Reforming the Tribal Jirga System’ under the Rule of Law Programming in Pakistan Project (Jirga Component)culminated on October 27th, 2011 with a roundtable organized with Youth and Women from Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) at Laraib Inn Hotel,Islamabad. The objective of this round table session was to discuss the role of youth and womenin reforming the Tribal Jirga-system in FATA.The discussion was attended by 30 individuals from FATA. Ms Feryal Ali Gauhar, eminent human rights expert, also graced the occasion and shared her valuable thoughts on women rights and tribal system of conflict resolution.

The Capacity Building Training Programme for 202 civil society organizations from seven agencies of FATA started in the last week of September 2011, under CAMP’s Communities for Change (CFC) project. The CFC project, in its second phase, aims to empower communities from the FATA (residents and diaspora) to better understand local and regional governance issues and to create momentum for needed change, which will ultimately help to stabilize the border region of Pakistan.
The first training was held from 27th to 29th September 2011 in Peshawar. The thematic area for the training was “Organizational Structure & Culture”.

It is very important that reforms be introduced in the Jirga System in order to align it with the international human rights paradigm and protect women and children’s rights.