This knowledge bank brings together Invest Salone’s experience and resources from its work in the fashion and textiles sector, including the programme timeline, research, insights, news stories and videos. It documents how different interventions contributed to sector development and captures lessons that may be valuable to businesses, industry organisations, policymakers, development practitioners and others working in fashion, textiles and the wider creative economy.
Building a Coalition for Catalytic Capital – Invest Salone Showcase, January 2026
Key government and private‑sector leaders gathered on Friday, 16 January 2026, as Invest Salone, a UK-funded private sector development programme, hosted a high‑level event aimed at deepening collaboration and boosting investment in Sierra Leone’s expanding private sector. The event showcased Invest Salone’s contribution to improving the business environment and reinforced its role as a partner and facilitator, bringing together diverse stakeholders to address systemic constraints through dialogue and cooperation.
Topic: Entrepreneurship and innovation, Finance, Financial instruments for business, Investment, Investment and export promotion, Public private dialogue (PPD)
Geographic Focus: Sierra Leone
Published by: Invest Salone