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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Livelihoods Team at Save the Children is pleased to announce the release of its latest publication: <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Pre-Feasibility Analysis: Index-Based Weather Risk Transfer in Mali</SPAN></B>. The report is product of a research project supported by USAID and other donors and carried out by GlobalAgRisk and Save the Children. It is an assessment of several preconditions of the conditions for developing a weather insurance market in Mail including: the legal and regulatory environment; acceptance of the concept by users; quality of the weather infrastructure; correlation of weather events across space; and potential for developing a weather index that matches crop yields. While the research revealed difficulty in determining a correspondence between rainfall levels and crop yields, the findings leave open the possibility of relying on other index-related approaches to design a rainfall drought insurance contract for farmers in Mali. </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The report can be found at <A title=blocked::http://www.savethechildren.org/publications/technical-resources/livelihoods/mali-weather-insurance.pdf href="http://www.savethechildren.org/publications/technical-resources/livelihoods/mali-weather-insurance.pdf">http://www.savethechildren.org/publications/technical-resources/livelihoods/mali-weather-insurance.pdf</A>.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Please contact my colleague Sarah Titus at <A href="mailto:stitus@savechildren.org">stitus@savechildren.org</A> if you have any trouble accessing the document.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thierry van Bastelaer</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P><B><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Gill Sans MT'">Thierry van Bastelaer | Senior Director, Livelihoods | International Program Leadership |</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></FONT><B><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" color=red size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Gill Sans MT'">Save the Children USA </SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Gill Sans MT'">| </SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" color=gray size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: gray; FONT-FAMILY: 'Gill Sans MT'">202.640.6690 </SPAN></FONT><B><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Gill Sans MT'">|</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></FONT><B><FONT face="Gill Sans MT" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Gill Sans MT'">tvanbastelaer@savechildren.org</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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