Climate change impacts across economic sectors have increased significantly over the past decade, affecting human lives and livelihoods as well as overall prosperity. In this context, it is key to identify, manage, and proactively address direct and indirect risks as well as priorities for sustainable and resilient business development. The Multi-Actor Partnership on Climate and Disaster Risk Management and Finance (MAP) initiated by SLYCAN Trust aims to contribute towards a wider awareness and strengthened capacities on this thematic area,including through knowledge-sharing, exchange, collaboration, and joint innovation.

Entrepreneurs and small- to medium-sized enterprises,industry associations, and chambers of commerce are key actors in Sri Lanka’s economy. To facilitate an inclusive dialogue on building a more sustainable and resilient entrepreneurship ecosystem across different sectors, SLYCAN Trust is hosting a thematic dialogue on entrepreneurship, enterprise risk management, and climate change in Sri Lanka.

The thematic dialogue aims to stimulate insightful conversation around risk management, finance, and long-term resilience-building within a sustainable entrepreneurial and business landscape. The discussion will give enterprises the opportunity to identify key risks in their sector and outline priorities for driving resilience, innovation, and adaptability in the face of climate-related challenges and opportunities.

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• Stimulate insightful conversations among stakeholders about risk management, finance, and long-term resilience-building within the context of sustainable entrepreneurship.
• Facilitate discussions to understand the key risks inherent in respective sectors affecting the MSMEs.
• Engage participants in outlining priorities for enhancing resilience, fostering innovation, and promoting adaptability in response to climate-related challenges.
• Identifying entry points to strengthen collaboration, joint innovation, and coherence amongst the stakeholders to catalyse support towards pathways of long-term resilience.