TorqAid produces a regular Summary Sheet on the current humanitarian crisis affecting Ukraine and surrounding countries. This highlights key material produced by the BBC, Humanitarian Response, ReliefWeb, OCHA, UNCHR, ACAPS, the International Crisis Group, the World Bank, and Groupe URD. Ukraine, together with Afghanistan and the Rohingya in Bangladesh, are complex emergency/crisis case studies in Topics 07 & 08 of the online PDRM program.

Humanitarian training throughout 2022 includes the longer, accredited, Participatory Disaster Risk Management (PDRM) program or workshop. This consists of ten topics (TCs). The PDRM can be taught either online or as a workshop. Accreditation is achieved by completing three assignment questions. The individual topics are then also offered separately as a Short Course (SC) program. The teaching format is either face-to-face teaching or self-directed study.

Our 2024 online Participatory Disaster Risk Management (PDRM) program is running from the 26 February through to mid June 2024. The intended outcome of this program is to provide the knowledge & skills to enable the participant to better understand, plan and implement humanitarian initiatives across the Disaster Risk Management Cycle (DRMC). Ten topics overall are taught on a weekly basis. When accompanied by three assessment tasks, the PDRM is given Advanced Standing towards a number of Master level courses (eg Sustainable Development, Development Studies) offered by Murdoch University, Perth.

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.

One of the four main responsibilities which Chris Piper had, when he was deployed by Redr Australia with UNDP in Cox’s Bazar for three months (Apr-July 2018) as their ‘Early Warning Dissemination and Training Specialist’, was to project manage the installment of automated rain gauges in three Rohingya camp locations in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.  The […]

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.

This reference links the reader to the one day Disaster Risk Management (DRM) training carried out by Chris Piper for BRAC – www.brac.net in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on the 7th May 2018. Chris was at the time a Redr Australia deployee attached to UNDP, where his official title was Earely Warning Dissemination and Training Specialist. […]

By mid May 2023, the Government of Bangladesh, supported by the international community, continues to provide appropriate support and assistance for over 960,000 Rohingya refugees (as well as 444,000 Bangladeshi host community individuals) across Cox Bazar District and Bhasan Char island in Bangladesh. Currently this area is in the path of Tropical Cyclone Mocha.

The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is complex and multifaceted, and one which the international community is trying its best to respond to. Enclosed here is the link to the ‘Understanding Yemen’ article updated to March/April 2021. Yemen is also one of the Complex Humanitarian Emergencies (CHEs) examples covered in Module 2 of the online, accredited, Participatory Disaster Risk Management (PDRM) program.

Enclosed here is the TorqAid online accredited Disaster Risk Management (DRM) program for 2018, with our next cohort of students running from Sept-Nov 2018 (people can also study at their own pace). There are six modules on offer, four related to Disaster Risk Management (DRM); one focusing on Participatory Project Management (PPM); and the sixth on Complex Humanitarian Emergencies (CHEs), with the Rohingya crisis, Syria, and Yemen as our main case studies. People can choose to study however many modules they wish, although all six modules plus the assignment questions are required for university accreditation.