iLab impact case study

This case study showcases how SOBA’s Innovation Lab (iLab) successfully supported the scaling up and replication of innovative business practices generated through interventions across key markets. SOBA uses a market systems approach to facilitate pro-poor economic growth in Sierra Leone. The programme collaborates with private sector businesses to trial and to scale innovative and inclusive business practices that reduce poverty and improve economic opportunities for poor women and men.

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Women in Tourism: Market and Investment Readiness

In 2024, Invest Salone hosted the “Women in Tourism: Market and Investment Readiness” conference to explore one of the biggest challenges facing women in Sierra Leone’s tourism sector: access to finance. The event brought together financial institutions, policy-makers and entrepreneurs to share insights, build networks and identify opportunities to strengthen women-led businesses.

Quarterly Newsletter – October 2024

This issue is a round-up of Invest Salone’s work supporting private sector investment and growth in Sierra Leone. It features highlights from the Sierra Leone Investment Summit, an agribusiness investment field trip, collaboration with banks on sustainable lending and stories on how tourism, arts and food are being showcased through Invest Salone’s Made in Salone initiative.