Ruwan Wijewardene, Senior Advisor to the President on Climate Change, along with Ravi Pratap Singh of iLEAD International Academy and Santosh Menon, CEO of FCB KL.LK, called upon President Ranil Wickremesinghe to update him on the progress of an ambitious program to develop more than 6,400 Green Entrepreneurs along the entire coastline of the island to restore and develop mangroves in the country.
Recently Sri Lanka has been selected as one of the seven UN World Restoration Flagships for its pioneering efforts to restore and expand the island’s mangrove cover by over 50 percent. However, there is a lot to be done in the last leg of this effort, which is always most challenging. One of the important aspects in the last leg is to ensure institutional mechanisms starting from the community level to the national level to sustain these efforts.
The vision of the Senior Advisor to the President on Climate Change to have development and environmental conservation work side by side and complementing each other has been given a concrete shape through the program called Green Entrepreneurship for Mangroves in Sri Lanka. The program has been conceptualised and developed by Ravi Pratap Singh, Managing Director of iLEAD International Academy, who has led successful mobilisation of more than 12,500 youth in Sri Lanka and around 2.5 Lakhyouth in the South Asia Region to develop them as successful entrepreneurs.
The program envisages galvanisation of all the forces inside and outside the country working towards mangrove restoration and youth empowerment.
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