Seasonal calendar

Showing the main seasonal activities and their spatial variability, which contribute to livelihood vulnerability in different seasons. What are people reliant on in that season? This helps provide an understand the timing of your response.

Strategic or operational?

Strategic

Basemap, baseline or situational?

Baseline

When might it be produced?

As early as possible in a response.

Intended audience

World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) may use these for contextualising the crisis.

Influence on humanitarian decisions

Supports a contextual understanding of the area of interest. Helps establish how a FS situation may evolve over time and support distribution agencies by informing them or which areas and which time might need additional support.

Methods

Use multiple maps to represent different seasons (i.e. wet, dry; or calendar months - DJF, MAM, JJA, SON) to show the different livelihood activities per season. For example, there might be specific crops planted, harvested at specific times or different types of livelihood activities might be undertaken at different times of the year. The maps should answer the question, what are people in a give area most reliant upon at specific time of the year.

Data

• Dominant Livelihood activity types

• Administration boundaries