Rain calendars: a tool for understanding changing rainfall patterns and effects on livelihoods (PLA 60)

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Published: December 2009
Participatory Learning and Action
Product code:G02822
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Participatory Learning and Action 60: Community-based adaptation to climate

CARE and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) collaborated to pilot the use of an innovative tool for participatory analysis of changing rainfall patterns. The rain calendar tool is designed to gather community perceptions of rainfall patterns, to determine the parameters for good, average, and bad years in terms of rainfall, and to provide a platform for discussing risk management strategies to adapt to changing rainfall patterns. The information obtained through the rain calendar can be augmented with larger-scale quantitative meteorological data for project planning and implementation. The article includes a case study, examining the vulnerability of pastoralists to climate change in Ethiopia.~Participatory Learning and Action (PLA, formerly PLA Notes) is the world's leading series on participatory learning and action approaches and methods. PLA publishes articles on participation aimed at practitioners, researchers, academics and activists. All articles are peer-reviewed by an international editorial board. See: www.planotes.org

Article in: PLA 60. Guest-edited by: Hannah Reid, Mozaharul Alam, Rachel Berger, Terry Cannon and Angela Milligan.

Keywords: CBA, climate change, adaptation, participation, DRR, disaster risk reduction.

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Awuor, C. and Hammill, A. (2009). Rain calendars: a tool for understanding changing rainfall patterns and effects on livelihoods (PLA 60). .
Available at https://www.iied.org/g02822