1 / 12

Seasonal Assessment Training The Reference Year and Seasonal Calendars

Seasonal Assessment Training The Reference Year and Seasonal Calendars Livelihoods Integration Unit (LIU ) Early Warning & Response Department Disaster Management & Food Security Sector Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development. What is a Reference Year?.

garron
Download Presentation

Seasonal Assessment Training The Reference Year and Seasonal Calendars

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Seasonal Assessment Training The Reference Year and Seasonal Calendars Livelihoods Integration Unit (LIU) Early Warning & Response Department Disaster Management & Food Security Sector Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development

  2. What is a Reference Year? A reference year provides the starting point for HEA outcome analysis.

  3. How is a Reference Year Used? All data in the HEA baseline are linked to the reference year. This gives a base-year for us to calculatechanges in access to food and cash income from year to year.

  4. Choosing a Reference Year The simplest in terms of the field work is either last year or the year before (i.e. a specific recent year) …provided it was not an exceptionally good year …or an exceptionally bad year. …or a year with a lot of conflict Otherwise take the most recent year that can be considered typical or at least not extreme So far in SNNPR, Tigray and Amhara Regions, the teams have chosen thelast yearas the reference year

  5. Setting up the Reference Year In HEA the reference year starts at the end of the annual ‘hungry season’, or at the beginning of the consumption year. For crop-dependent areas this means the start of the main harvest For pastoralists this means the start of the main rains

  6. What is a Seasonal Calendar? Seasonal Calendars are: A graphic representation of key production, market-related and other activities as they occur throughout the year

  7. Why do we need Seasonal Calendars? They: • help analysts see how different activities affect each other • highlight moments when there are competitive demands for labour, resources, etc. • provide info. for monitoring and response

  8. Why do we need seasonal calendars? To understand when different sources offoodare available Example taken from South Omo Crop LZ, SNNPR

  9. Why do we need seasonal calendars? To understand when different sources ofincomeare available Example taken from South Omo Crop LZ, SNNPR

  10. Why do we need seasonal calendars? To understand when different crops are planted and harvested Example taken from South Omo Crop LZ, SNNPR

  11. Why do we need seasonal calendars? To understand when prices normally peak Example taken from South Omo Crop LZ, SNNPR

  12. Why do we need seasonal calendars? To understand potential areas of competition between activities Example taken from South Omo Crop LZ, SNNPR

More Related