Introduction
This study was conducted to understand the reasons following FDMA request for the deregistration of IDP from MirAli and Miranshah in North Waziristan following de-notification and information campaign by the government that return was opened in these areas. The results will inform recommendation and decision making about de-registration and help understand key factors impending these IDPs to return.
Humanitarian community have long sought to understand more about the factors that are stopping families from NWA to return to their areas of origin, to that end, Protection cluster in collaboration with IVAP-IRC conducted a sample survey for the NWA families. This study explores reasons for which the families are still living in the host community and are not willing to go back.