Q1: What is meant by a return process?
ANS: A return process is the mechanism through which internally displaced persons (IDPs) are facilitated to return voluntarily to their place of origin following government de-notification of the area.
Q2: What is a Voluntary Return Form (VRF)?
ANS: A Voluntary Return Form is a document signed by those IDPs who are willing to return to their place of origin as part of an organized process to affirm the voluntary nature of their decision to return, independent of any coercion or pressure.
Q3: Where can I get the VRF?
ANS: VRF can be collected from the UNHCR/SRSP desk at the embarkation points established for IDPs. Embarkation points are announced by the FDMA/Political Administration.
Q4: Who will provide information regarding returns, including my tribe’s return dates?
ANS: FDMA Agency Coordinators, Political Administration, IOM’s Humanitarian Communications Program, IDP elders/committees and Malik’s.
Q5: How will I receive information on returns?
ANS: Radio announcements (Radio Pakistan, FM 101, FM 94.6 in PESHAWAR and Nowshera and FM 93 in Kohat), newspaper advertisements (Daily AAJ, Daily Mashriq and Daily Express), helpline numbers (091-9218513, 0322-5555737, 0800-44422), or officials and social mobilizers at embarkation points.
