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Oxfam in Asia has identified that the Private Sector, especially the agri-business and financial service providers for agricultural production and services, including insurance companies, play a crucial role in building resilience to disaster and climate risks for their businesses, for small-scale food producers and processors. This project is aimed to provide Oxfam a better understanding of the nature of work and current practices of businesses and support services in agriculture as well as their link to building disaster and climate resilience; in order to inform their decisions for future interventions.

In an attempt to harness climate change effect on vulnerable groups in developing countries, ADB has designed a program that provides loan for households in Dong Hoi to build biogas digesters to deal with climate change related risk. This project aims to evaluate the impact of increasing the density of eco-toilets and biogas digesters on sanitation, health condition and household incomes in Dong Hoi.