TorqAid Update

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Greetings for 2020 !

The monthly TorqAid Update ‘ www.torqaid.com/torqaid-update provides a range of useful material for the global humanitarian or development practitioner.  Currently there are over 500 subscribers to this Update.  Included in this January 2020 Update are the following:

  • The TorqAid Toolkit – www.torqaid.com/torqaid-toolkit, a useful compendium of resources.  This includes the various training options offered by TorqAid, as well as some useful material or seminal articles.  This includes a Humanitarian and Development Bibliography, as well as a Humanitarian and Development Agency Directory
  • An updated article entitled a ‘Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Diagrammatic Framework’  www.torqaid.com/drm-framework . This includes four key TorqAid diagrams; a section on risk; and some key Humanitarian Evaluation Criteria (HEC).
  • A post/blog on bushfires –  www.torqaid.com/bushfires .  This is particularly relevant viz-a-viz the current bushfires ravaging a number of Australian States and Territories.  It includes a bibliography and agency directory, which in turn highlight lessons learnt from earlier bushfires (such as the 2009 Victorian ones).

 

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Cheers

 

Chris

 

Train Like a Champion

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TorqAid has developed a ‘Train Like a Champion’ (TLC) short article for humanitarian and development practitioners.  This covers five teaching principles and twelve useful teaching tips. This is primarily for individuals who have had no formal teaching or training experience, but yet in their jobs are required to train or facilitate others. Follow the link below to this TLC ‘one pager’.

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These TLC teaching principles and tips are also included in Topic 04 (Humanitarian Attributes & Competencies) of the TorqAid Participatory Disaster Risk Management (PDRM) program. Follow the link below for both the upcoming online, accredited, PDRM training program, which is running from the end of July through to mid November 2026.

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Twelve Teaching Tips

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In order to become an effective teacher, trainer or facilitator, individuals ideally need a combination of the following:

  • A high standard of relevant academic, professional and/or technical expertise
  • An understanding of pedagogy and andagogy (adult learning) principles
  • Good personal and inter-personal attributes and skills
  • Good organisational skills
  • Good facilitation skills

TorqAid has produced a ‘one pager’ which summarises Twelve Teaching Tips which can contribute to an individual become a great teacher. Follow the link below for these Tips.

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This article can be found in the TorqAid Toolkit, a useful compendium of resources for the development or humanitarian practitioner. Follow the link below to the Toolkit.

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Hurricanes-cyclones-typhoons

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This link below relates to a customised bibliography from 2021, with highlighted information on cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons.

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This includes material on the following:

  • BBC articles on how hurricanes/cyclones/typhoons form
  • A variety of articles by different agencies and authors on Cyclone Yaas in India (2021); Cyclone Amphan in India/Bangladesh (2020); Hurricane Dorian in the Caribbean (2019); Cyclone (TC) Fani in India, and Cyclone Idai in Mozambique (both 2019); Hurricanes Irma and Maria in the Caribbean (2017); Cyclone Debbie in Australia (2017); TC Winston in Fiji, and Hurricane Matthew in Haiti (both 2016);  TC Pam in Vanuatu (2015); Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (2008); and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philipppines (2013)

The second article is the TorqAid Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Diagrammatic Framework. This includes key components of both the Disaster Risk Management Cycle (DRMC), and the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) diagram. The key components of both diagrams can be applied to the disaster risk management of cyclones/hurricanes/typhoons.

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The study of cyclones in the Southwest Pacific is included out in Topic TC02 of the TorqAid online, accredited, Participatory Disaster Risk Management (PDRM) program. Follow the link below to the online accredited PDRM which runs from March to May 2005.

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Project Management Cycle

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The Project Management Cycle (PMC) has been developed and, with input from PPM (see below) students, modified by TorqAid since 2002. This diagram illustrates the three key Stages of any community development project, namely Planning, Implementation, and Post-Implementation.  Enclosed below is a jpeg copy of the landscape version of the PMC, which can also be found at www.torqaid.com/resources.

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The PMC is a key tool in the teaching of the TorqAid accredited Participatory Project Management (PPM) workshop.  PPM is also one of the five key modules components of the accredited Disaster Risk Management (DRM) program.  Follow the links below for links to the generic PPM and DRM workshops.

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The PMC is also an essential tool in the development of the Project Design Document (PDD).  The PDD includes all the essential material required for a proposed project, and can be used for project proposals and submissions. Follow the link below for a link to the PDD template.

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Rohingya What Matters

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BBC Media Action and Translators without Borders (TWB), in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, together regularly helped produce for the Bangladeshi agency Shongjog, a Humanitarian Bulletin on the Rohingya Response entitled ‘What Matters ?’  This document, published in both Bengali (Bangla) and English, summarised community feedback from both the Rohingya refugees (Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals) and the Bangladeshi host population. TorqAid produced a summary of these bulletins (see link below) from February 2018 through to (version #58) February 2022.

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The Rohingya situation is included as one of a number of complex emergency/crisis case studies on offer (see Topics TC08 & 09) in the online, accredited Participatory Disaster Risk Management (PDRM) program which is on offer in 2025 – see link below.

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