In this paper, we review experiences in piloting weather index insurance products and examine how weather index insurance could contribute to managing drought risk in smallholder agriculture.
This has included both the advances in the fundamental knowledge of the technology and practical experience in pilot, demonstration and commercial plants.
Yeo dismissed fears about tremors and earthquakes, saying those experienced in pilot areas were weaker than the tremors commonly cause by coal mining which had been going on directly underneath people's houses for decades.
We also made changes based our experiences in pilot testing the measure since an expert committee and pilot users found some items to be redundant or difficult to understand.
Major Roth, the company's commander, said he also depended on his veterans' experience in helping pilots weigh their options in response to threats.
Based on our experience in this pilot project, we have developed a beginner's manual for colonoscopy for use in low-income and middle-income countries.
Following experience in the pilot study [ 41] and informed by insights from the qualitative study undertaken in preparation for the RCT (paper submitted), a brief education programme (with formal curriculum and workbook, referred to as the 'My Hypo COMPaSS' tool), was developed.
Our experience in a pilot study was that a network size of up to 30 agents was satisfactory for descriptive network analysis, whereas a larger network would make data collection quite resource intensive when this was being done by interview [ 15].
ODI has also developed a SEDP Social Audit Toolkit with detailed information on the four tools, based on the experience gained from piloting the tools in the Vietnamese context.
Participants consisted of a distributed maritime operations team, including an experienced Captain (male, 31 years old, 5 years experience in current role), Pilot (male, 52 years old, 10 years experience in current role), Helmsman (male, 65 years old, unknown years experience), and Tug Master (male, 50 years old, 2 years experience in current role).
