The Invest Salone Resource Bank brings together a collection of resources related to Invest Salone’s work to encourage investment, generate exports, create jobs and diversify four key sectors in Sierra Leone. Pooling resources produced by Invest Salone and external contributors, this tool will grow to provide a broad range of resources related to investing and doing business in Sierra Leone. Use the filters below to explore the resources by type, sector, topic and more.
Coronavirus: for Africa’s sake, the West should be selfish this time
An article from The Africa Report about the dramatic return to Keynesian policies in Africa by those who once kept at arm’s length what they considered a sin: to recognise…
UNDP and Government of Rwanda deploy smart anti-epidemic robots to fight against COVID-19!
This article from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) discusses the UNDP Accelerator Lab partnership with the Rwandan Ministry of ICT and Innovation to acquire and deploy five smart anti-epidemic…
Investing in chiefdoms and local councils to fight COVID-19 from the ‘last mile’
This article by the United Nations Development Programme looks at ways of decentralising the national COVID-19 response in Sierra Leone to the districts and chiefdoms.
Small traders in Sierra Leone and Liberia fear a much less effective response to COVID-19 than Ebola
An African Business article on West African nations affected by Ebola in 2014 and the fear that the pandemic, with the global nature of the COVID-19 crisis, will divert much-needed…
African tourism has been put on ice by coronavirus – here’s how some countries are reviving it
An article from The Conversation which outlines how COVID-19 has affected the tourism industries in the Gambia and Kenya, and how they are responding to this change.
This article by Gelaga King and Christopher Greene, posted by GPK Legal on LinkedIn, explores the legal implications of COVID-19 for businesses in Sierra Leone and the permissible mitigating steps.
Putting women and girls’ safety first in Africa’s response to COVID-19
An article from Brookings on how women and girls in Africa are among the most vulnerable groups exposed to the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This article from MIT news outlines how the MIT Governance Lab and the Institute for Governance Reform are working with the Government of Sierra Leone to conducting rapid-response surveys to…
New policies to speed up financial inclusion and digital payments launched
A Goldstreet Business article on three policy initiatives, launched by the Ministry of Finance in Ghana, designed to deepen financial inclusion and accelerate the shift to digital payments.