APEC Disaster Risk Management Strategies to Support MSMEs Business Sustainability

This report is prepared as a summary to record the activities delivered under the APEC Disaster Risk Management Strategies to Support Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Business Sustainability project. The project involved two main activities: a survey to understand the MSMEs’ knowledge gap in risk management and a workshop for capacity building and policy discussion. Both activities were conducted in 2020-2021.

The survey was conducted to understand knowledge related to risk management among MSMEs and the survey results were utilized to reduce the knowledge gap through the capacity building and policy development workshop and were also used to develop a risk management guide. Meanwhile, the virtual workshop was organized in an effort to increase MSMEs’ coping capacity through a capacity- building program and to discuss policy matters to support MSMEs recovery post-disaster. Finally, the participants collectively developed 12 resolutions and refined the Risk Management Guide for MSMEs.