The 2019/20 Australian bushfire season has been unprecedented in its intensity and geographical spread. Chris has subsequently both prepared an article on bushfires for the Geography Teachers Association of Victoria’s (GTAV), and also done some Bushfire Recovery Adviser (BRA) work for a major church agency in the east of the state.
The Red Cross produces an Annual ‘World Disasters Report’. In the appendices are disaster related statistics over a ten year period. What we’ve done here is summarised in a composite table the numbers of disasters over the past decade; the number of people killed and affected over this period; and the damage caused over these […]
Enclosed are twelve ‘Teach like a Champion’ (TLAC) teaching tips. One of the challenges facing development and humanitarian practitioners in the field is that they are invariably and regularly faced with teaching and capacity building situations. These tips are designed for those people who have not necessarily received any formal training in the art and […]
The Ten Seed Technique (TST) is a brilliant participatory tool, which can be used in a number of development and humanitarian settings. It is also covered in Topic TC06 of the PDRM training program, where examples are drawn from a Darwin-based remote Australia health setting; a community development program in West Bengal, India; and analysis of the social, environmental, political & economic landscape in Bhutan. Hazards (identified through the TST) are then tackled in Topic TC07, where a risk management approach is used in Vanuatu, the Rohingya community in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps, and for Bhutan as a whole.
One of the key TorqAid diagrams mentioned in the TorqAid Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Diagrammatic Framework article is the Project Management Cycle (PMC). This article relates to Participatory Project Management (PPM) across the three stages of the PMC, namely Preparation, Implementation, and Post-implementation. Click here to download a comprehensive outline of PPM competencies. PPM is […]
Enclosed in this blog are a number of articles which relate to the development or humanitarian practitioner, and are particularly relevant to Module 5 (participatory Project Management) of the TorqAid accredited Disaster Risk Management (DRM) program. This includes project management items such as the Project Management Cycle (PMC), and the Project Design Document (PDD); as well […]