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6th February 2023

Made in Salone: Stories showcasing the benefits of local manufacturing and production

Made in Salone – a concept to showcase the positive impact of domestic production and manufacturing businesses – goes live with a short video about Sierra Bo Garri, a pioneering…

18th January 2023

Preparing Sierra Leonean fashion to go global

A series of seminars for Sierra Leonean clothing and textile brands, aiming to tap into growing international interest in African fashion, continued last week (13 January 2023) with a practical…

4th January 2023

Invest Salone’s Team Lead lists 7Cs to inclusive private sector-led growth

In a new opinion piece, Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie, Invest Salone’s Team Leader, sets out an immediately actionable strategy for achieving inclusive private sector development in Sierra Leone. He states that the…

14th December 2022

Finance for sustainability in Sierra Leone

Invest Salone and the Bank of Sierra Leone met on 13 December 2022, to discuss the next steps in the sustainable finance roadmap, which is intended to help integrate sustainability…

12th December 2022

Invest Salone holds introduction to ‘going global’ for Sierra Leone’s fashion and textiles sector

At an introductory workshop on international marketing (6 December 2022), over 14 companies from Sierra Leone’s fashion and textiles industry heard suggestions for creating lookbooks, pricing strategies for export, as…

9th December 2022

Strengthening SMEs for productivity and competitiveness

Following initial assessments conducted earlier this summer, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), who will be receiving support under Invest Salone’s technical assistance facility (TAF), gathered in Freetown on 8…

14th November 2022

Sierra Leone welcomes UK and European tour operators for familiarisation visit

It has been five years since international tour operators last visited Sierra Leone, but today (14 November 2022) Invest Salone, a UK-government funded private sector development initiative, welcomed a party…

7th November 2022

Structured pre-investment support puts Sierra Leonean SMEs on the path to investment

To unlock growth in Sierra Leonean start-ups, structured support is essential if they are to acquire the tools necessary to attract institutional investment. This was one of the key messages…

10th October 2022

Sierra Leone’s public sector and agribusinesses collaborate on a more efficient import duty waiver system

Participants attending a recent public–private dialogue (PPD) on Sierra Leone’s duty waiver system have identified concrete recommendations and next steps to improve the process. The PPD was attended by importers,…

4th October 2022

Sierra Leone’s public and private sector take the first steps towards a sustainable finance roadmap

Seventy stakeholders from Sierra Leone’s business ecosystem took part in a public–private dialogue (PPD) on Thursday 15 September to discuss green investment. They overwhelmingly supported the need for a sustainable…