Since 2002, TorqAid has facilitated over 70 Participatory Project Management (PPM) workshops both across Australia and overseas. Australian locations have included Torquay, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Nhullunbuy, Darwin, Alice Springs, Perth & Adelaide.  Overseas locations have included Fiji, PNG, Indonesia, Singapore, India, Afghanistan, and Albania.

PPM is now taught in two formats, namely as a PPM accredited workshops by individual clients; or as an online program.  A condensed version of the PPM is also covered as Topic 00 in the Participatory Disaster Risk Management (PDRM) program, which again is taught as a workshop or online program.   Follow the links below to the generic PPM workshop, as well as to the PDRM program.

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PPM training covers the following topics, although these can be customised to meet client’s specific requirements:

• Understanding the background context
• Relationship building and guiding principles
• Spatial dimensions
• Overall framework – Project Management Cycle (PMC)
• Stakeholders; vulnerability issues; power structures; and stakeholder coordination
• Brainstorming and ranking community strengths and challenges
• Needs assessment
• Key participatory tools and techniques (this including the Ten Seed Technique = TST)
• Logical framework approaches
• Identifying baseline data and objectives. Time-lines. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework
• Financial and risk management
• Capacity building and administration issues
• Developing a Project Design Document (PDD), and proposal writing
• Implementation and post-implementation strategies (including sustainability)
• Example of a successful community level project