The Participatory Disaster Risk Management (PDRM) program is designed for a mixture of humanitarian or development practitioners, as well as university students, and other interested individuals. Participants can choose to take the whole program, or alternatively, pick and choose the various modules. Completion of all five modules plus the three assignment questions, can lead to accreditation with a number of mainly Masters courses offered by two Australian universities.

The teaching component of the 2021 online Participatory Disaster Risk Management (PDRM) program is running from the 26th July through to the 5th November 2021. The brochure, teaching framework, assignment details, and registration form can all be accessed below. There are five modules to this as highlighted in the five (2020) videos below.

We cover a number of key contemporary topics, these key diagrams for explaining natural disasters; risk management; humanitarian competencies and codes of conduct; complex emergencies/crises; climate change; and the effects of Covid-19 on all this.  We include case studies from across Australia and overseas, the latter including Vanuatu, Laos, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Syria, the Yemen and Tigray.

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The PDRM consists of five modules, as outlined below.

Module 1:
Key Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Diagrams & Issues
26th July to 13th August 2021
[Preview Video]

Module 2:
Humanitarian Practitioner Attributes, Competencies, & Standards
16th August to 3rd September
[Preview Video]

Module 3
Risk Management
6th to 24th September
[Preview Video]

Module 4:
Complex Emergencies/Crises
27th September to 15th October
[Preview Video]

Module 5:
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) & Climate Change
18th October to 5th November
[Preview Video]

The copy of the Teaching Framework for the 2021 PDRM is given below.

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The link to the 2021 assignment questions is given below. As already indicated, eligible participants seeking Advance Standing/Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) must complete all five modules, and answer three assignment questions.

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The 2021 PDRM Registration Form can be downloaded below. It includes details of the costs of the modules, assignments (if these are being taken), and discounts for particular stakeholders.

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