Climate risks increasingly impact entrepreneur and farmer clients in Africa, and this needs to be factored into how financial services providers operate. This panel explores how financial service providers strengthen their capacities to empower MSMEs and entrepreneurs to build resilience against climate change. Experiences from Oxfam Novib, Triple Jump, VisionFund Senegal, and HEDERA on climate risk assessment at institutional, portfolio, and client levels in Senegal, and from Advans, which has analyzed the climate risks facing clients in three of its portfolios in Ghana, Tunisia, and Ivory Coast supported by FMO, will be discussed. The session emphasizes the need for climate risk assessments for MFIs, and explores how climate change affects both clients and MFIs, underscoring the need for MFIs to build resilience and support their clients. Moreover, panelists will discuss how to drive change around climate effects in a financial institution, focusing mainly on the importance of raising awareness and capacity building amongst staff.