Consultancies are offered in the following areas:

Disaster Risk Management (DRM) The link here lists the variety of DRM consultancies which Chris has been involved over the pastr dozen years or so.  They include DRM work carried out in locations including Australia, PNG, The Pacific Ocean, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Lao PDR, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, India and the Balkans. 

Any DRM during 2010 will need to be contracted through Chris in his role as the Foundation for Developmernt Cooperation's (FDC) DRM Coordinator.  If interested, please contact him on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Facilitation.  Chris is also a qualified secondary teacher; adult educator; and experienced university lecturer.  Over the past years he has both worked as a part-time lecturer at Deakin University (1999-2007), and also facilitated a large number of short practical workshops.  The main ones are Participatory Project Management (PPM) and Disaster Risk Management (DRM), both of which are accredited (with 5 Australian universities) workshops.  Currently Chris is working as the FDC Senior Training Coordinator, and can be contacted on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . 

The FDC PPM & DRM workshop schedule for 2010/2011is outlined in the Training Section of this torqaid website, and this includes their first Training of Trainers (ToT) course in December 2010.    

Design Services.  TorqAid uses the design services provided by Nick Piper.  Click below for his folio.  He can be contacted either directly at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  or through Chris Piper at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it