TorqAid is a consultancy focusing in on community development and humanitarian aid in both Australia and overseas.  Its mission is to provide a range of appropriate and targeted consultancy services, training courses and information to the Australian and overseas community development and aid communities.  By doing this effectively, we believe we are contributing to improved standards of assistance both here in Australia and overseas.

From early 2010, the TorqAid CEO, Chris Piper, joined the Foundation for Development Cooperation (FDC) - www.fdc.org.au as their Senior Training and Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Coordinator.  The monthly Australian Aid Resource & Training Guide (AARTG) is now being managed by the FDC, although links to this will continue to be made on this website through our monthly TorqAid Update.  This will make mention of the AARTG, and also highlight other interesting aid or community development issues.  The July AARTG can be accessed here. 

People can log in to receive these TorqAid Updates on the following site:   http://www.torqaid.com/phplist/  .  People are asked to include details of their geographical location; and there are also TorqAid Updates sub-sections on the following topics:

• Disaster Risk Management (DRM)Issues
• Community Development (CD) & Project Management (PM) Issues
• Faith & Justice Issues