Over the past 20 years or so, TorqAid, with input from practitioners and students, has worked to develop a diagrammatic framework of how key aspects of all disasters can be illustrated by the use of four key diagrams.  This material is covered in an article entitled a ‘Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Diagrammatic Framework’ which can be accessed here. This article has been updated to April-June 2023.

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The article includes key information here for the global humanitarian/development practitioner, researcher, and secondary/tertiary student. It includes:

• Four key TorqAid diagrams, namely the Disaster Risk Management Cycle (DRMC); the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) diagram; the DRM Planning diagram; and the Project Management Cycle (PMC). There are also variants of the DRMC and DRR relating to slow-onset hazards such as drought.  Jpeg copies of these diagrams can be accessed on the TorqAid website at www.torqaid.com/resources
• Applications of the DRMC diagram to the 2020-2022 Covid-19 pandemic

The DRM framework is also the basis for much of the material for the ten topics covered in both the overall 2023 Participatory Disaster Risk Management (PDRM)  training program, this including the accredited, online, PDRM which runs from the 24 July through to the end of November 2023. Details of both the overall 2023 PDRM training program, and the more specific online July-November 2023 PDRM can be accessed here:

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