This Investment Toolkit is designed to support support small and medium-sized enterprises in Sierra Leone on their investment readiness journeys. It provides practical guidance on the areas investors typically consider most important, including governance, financial management, business strategy, operations, environmental and social management, and legal and regulatory compliance.
To accompany the Sierra Leone Investment Toolkit, this directory brings together information on professional service providers operating in Sierra Leone that can support businesses as they prepare for investment.
The self-assessment tool has been designed specifically with SMEs in Sierra Leone in mind, enabling companies to evaluate their investment readiness against a defined set of parameters so they can better understand where they are on their journey and find out which areas they should prioritise to improve their investment proposition.
This framework comprises nine voluntary principles designed to help financial institutions integrate environmental, social and governance considerations into lending, investment and business decision-making. It represents Sierra Leone’s first coordinated, sector-wide framework for integrating ESG considerations into financial sector decision-making.
Find out how a partnership between Invest Salone, Vista Bank Sierra Leone and the Small Foundation is shifting the bank’s portfolio toward lending to SMEs by strengthening credit assessment tools and improving sector knowledge, with support from a risk-sharing guarantee.
This sector-level guidance supports financial institutions with the implementation of the voluntary sustainable finance principles. It is tailored for a diverse range of financial institutions – from microfinance lenders to larger commercial banks – and focuses on the “everyday” business of banking with micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Sierra Leone, covering the key sectors: agriculture, fisheries and forestry; construction; energy and energy efficiency; and value chains (e.g. manufacturing and wholesale/retail trade).
The March 2026 edition includes coverage of our January showcase and highlights stories and resources about the partnerships, technical support and investment outcomes exhibited at the event.
Discover more about Freetown Waste Transformers, the operational support they received from Redsalt Angel Investment Network and the impact of investment in the company.
Discover more about Jolaks, the ecosystem support they received and the impact of Proparco’s investment in the company.
Explore Jolaks’s investment journey to its deal with Proparco.