Through improved financial and business skills, heightened awareness of the effects of climate change, possible risk management and entrepreneurial adaptation concepts, the resilience of the population to exogenous shocks such as the effects of climate change and the Covid 19 pandemic is to be increased.

Activities

• Development of measures to promote the entrepreneurial skills of the target group in rural areas (e.g. business planning, financial management and accounting, risk management, contingency planning) in cooperation with partner institutions
• Identify partner structures and consulting approaches to raise awareness among the target group on entrepreneurial risk management (e.g., insurance, risk avoidance strategies, contingency plans, and climate adaptation investments)
• Create the conditions to strengthen institutional capacity of financial service providers to deliver demand-driven financing to the rural target group