Nahqi IDPs Camp Decommissioning
15 August, 2012 To 15 October, 2012

The recent military operations in Mohmand Agency resulted in displacement of thousands of families from the areas of conflict. In order to accommodate and facilitate these IDP’s, Government decided to establish camps in two sites i.e. Danish kol in Tehsil Pandyali and Nahqi in Tehsil Halimzai. Nahqi was the larger of the two camps occupying land of 164 acres, accommodated about 8000 families thus It helped thousands of families in their relief but left many farmers helpless because the lands on which camp was established were agricultural lands belongs to the local community used these lands for cultivation of crops and at the time were already cultivated but due to the establishment of the camps not only the newly cultivated crops were destroyed but also the land demarcations was changed as a result of site planning and development like roads, street and wash facilities inside the camp. So After closure of the camp the land level was not suitable for cultivation. Therefore the owners of the land not only suffered the loss of yields for two consecutive years but also were not able to use these lands for future agriculture activities. And the problem of demarcation of the land was causing disputes amongst the land owners as well.
In order to decommission the camp infrastructure and put the land back to its original shape of agricultural land, FRD and UNHCR agreed upon an agreement in August 2012. FRD implemented this project with adoption of participatory approach by involving the local community to properly decide the demarcations between the lands of the various land owners and resolve any possible issues over the ownership of the lands. FRD also provided short term earning opportunity to local community by minimum utilization of mechanized resources and maximum utilization of local human resource in rehabilitation of their lands under its cash for work component and put the land back to the pre camp status. In addition to the demarcation the farmers were provided seed and fertilizers to compensate for their loss and to re- start their agricultural activities on their lands.