We’re a participatory humanitarian practice which focuses in on Consultancy work, Training and Research, and our website illustrates these three complementary areas.  On this Home Page we’d briefly like to summarise what we think are our five key Strengths.  Firstly, like many of our contemporary colleagues, we combine a rich experience of overseas humanitarian work, and Chris is able to combine this with Emergency Management work in Australia.  We also have a small cadre of experienced Global Humanitarian Practitioners (GHPs) with whom we share advice and ideas. Secondly, disasters are complex events, and over the years we believe there are patterns to these which can be best expressed in four key diagrams. A DRM Framework article explaining this can be found in our Resources Page. Thirdly, we’ve incorporated this experience into a Participatory Disaster Risk Management (PDRM) training program, which is delivered in both workshop and online formats.   Fourthly, in addition to the DRM Framework article, we’ve developed, and update quarterly, both a Global Humanitarian and Development Bibliography and a similar Aid Directory.  Fifthly, we genuinely endeavour to make our work’ participatory’.  We regularly fine-tune our key diagrams from comments made by field practitioners and students.  We also use a modified version on the Ten Seed Technique (TST), a fabulous ranking tool, to dig down deep into hearing and understanding a community’s strengths and challenges.