Currently Chris, working as the Baptist Union of Victoria (BUV)s Bushfire Recovery Adviser (BRA) is working with the BUV and the Baptist Unions in NSW & ACT to develop a practical training program for their bushfire-related Community Recovery Volunteers (CRVs). These are people selected and trained up to provide ongoing informal support for bushfire-affected families […]
TorqAid produces a monthly update of a three page Summary Sheet on Covid-19. This includes key details of Australian and international government departments, organisations, and research institutions both reporting on, and combatting, the pandemic.
Enclosed is a bibliography, updated in June 2020, which includes some key references to the Australian 2019/20 bushfire sesason. These include a few essential background readings related to climate change generally.
TorqAid produces a Monthly Update, which is sent to over 500 subscribers. Enclosed here is the January 2020 Update which includes material on the latest versions of the TorqAid Toolkit and Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Framework, as well as a post/blog on Bushfires.
TorqAid produces a short one page ‘Train like a Champion’ (TLC) article, which includes five teaching principles, and twelve teaching tips. This material is covered as part of the PDRM training program Topic TC 03 (Humanitarian Attributes & Competencies).
TorqAid has developed a ‘one pager’ of Twelve Teaching Tips for development or humanitarian practitioners who do not have any formal background in teaching, training or facilitation.
September 2019 was the month when Hurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamas, and moved up the eastern coast of the US. As a result of this, TorqAid has updated its Post on Hurricanes-Cyclones-typhoons. This is useful material for both the humanitarian and development practitioner, as well as for tertiary/secondary students, and includes examples of earlier hurricanes/cyclones/typhoons from the Caribbean, SW Pacific (including Australia), NW Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and the Bay of Bengal.
The Project Management Cycle (PMC) clearly illustrates the three key stages of Project Planning, Implementation & Post Implementation. The PMC is also a key component of the TorqAid Participatory Project Management (PPM) workshop, as well as the development of the Project Design Document (PDD). The PMC lay at the heart of a customised inter-state PPM workshop which was facilitated by TorqAid in early April 2019, mainly for practitioners involved in Aboriginal community development projects in Outback and remote Australia.
TorqAid updates the Shongjog, ‘What Matters?’ bulletins which are produced regularly by BBC Media Watch and Translators without Borders (TWB) on the Rohingya (Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals) community in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. These report on concerns and issues raised by the Rohingya and Bangladeshi host communities. The latest update is for February 2022.
Chris has recently recently returned from a three month Redr Australia contracted UNDP mission to Cox’s Bazar, supporting the Rohingya humanitarian program there. This link summarises his work there, together with separate articles describing in more detail three key aspects of his responsbilities there.