Webinar on Building Businesses’ Climate Resilience: Relevance and Usefulness of Disaster Risk Reduction Tools

The ‘‘Building Businesses’ Climate Resilience’’ (BBCR) app is a new tool for Sri Lankan businesses to reduce their damages and losses. Having had enough consultations and discussions with Sri Lankan business communities and related services providers, the tool has been developed as a mobile app. Moving with the current trends in this digital era, the BBCR app provides resilience information to the fingertip of the entrepreneurs with the evolution and emergence of the digital era. The tool is a good platform for sharing not only information but also linking the required resources to enhance emergency preparedness and contingency planning within the business community. The app provides easily accessible guidance and recommendations to enhance the ability of small and medium-sized enterprises to prepare for and reduce the negative impacts of flooding events. Accordingly, the app provides more opportunities for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to act proactively for building their resilience.

Given the above context, the primary purpose of this webinar is to present the above tool developed under the BBCR project and further discuss the usefulness of new disaster risk reduction (DRR) tools to improve the disaster preparedness of SMEs.