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📅 The Role of Seasonal Calendars and Hazard Timelines in Anticipatory Action ☀ 🌧 🌾 Working with local communities and stakeholders to develop crisis calendars is a powerful way to inform and strengthen Anticipatory Action Plans and Anticipatory Actions. 💡 These tools provide invaluable insights into the timing of critical agricultural and climate patterns, identifying key windows for opportunity to mitigate the impacts of hazards like droughts and floods. 📊 The example here illustrates how we work with local data to capture out events such as planting, harvest, and lean seasons but also livelihood and vulnerability factors. By aligning these with expected climate patterns and hazard occurrence, we’re able to identify “readiness activities” and “anticipatory action” triggers - initiating actions, such as disseminating early warning information or distributing supplementary fodder and cash, when they will have the greatest impact. 🔎 Right now, our team and partners in #Madagascar are currently exploring alternative formats for crisis calendars. This participatory approach not only improves the way we prepare for hazardous events, but also fosters ownership, ensuring that anticipatory actions are timely and relevant. Have you used crisis calendars in your work? Share your experiences in the comments below! 🙏 With WHH Madagascar - Welthungerhilfe, Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe, and SAF / FJKM. #AnticipatoryAction #CrisisCalendars #WAHAFA
