Legal identity is a critical and multifaceted issue situated at the intersection of human rights, demographic statistics, and administrative reform. Legal identity has wide-reaching implications. Access to resources, social services and economic opportunities are all linked directly or indirectly with the official proof of identity, i.e. computerized national identity cards (CNIC).
The Political and Electoral Violence, Education and Resolution Project worked to develop and test a methodological framework for political and electoral violence monitoring and verification through community-based investigation and other sources, including media.
Due to the delay in the local government (LG) elections originally scheduled after August 2009, FAFEN, modified the Women Voters Mobilization Project and carried out comprehensive observation of the pre-election process and assessing citizens’ perspectives on local issues and quality of service delivery being rendered by LG institutions.
As part of The Asia Foundation’s Dispute Resolution in the NWFP project baseline survey in seven districts including Peshawar, Nowshera, Mardan, Swabi, Haripur, Abbottabad, and Mansehra. Under this project, TDEA developed a methodology for random selection of 10 primary sampling units (PSU), i.e., polling stations of the Election Commission of Pakistan, in each of the target districts for the purpose of identifying a random selection of 100 households in each district (10 from each PSU).