This document offers pay-as-you-go (PAYG) information to inform distributors entering Sierra Leone’s solar market. It includes an overview of PAYG best practices from aggregated learnings across sub-Saharan Africa to inform the development of the PAYG opportunity in Sierra Leone. The brief also offers recommendations for targeted investments to inform internal business process improvement to support PAYG roll-out and sector-level interventions to support wider PAYG expansion, based on learning in Sierra Leone.
Transforming palm oil in Sierra Leone: Lessons learned
Discover how Invest Salone helped unlock the potential of Sierra Leone’s palm oil sector. By connecting refineries with smallholder producers, mobilising capital and providing targeted support, the programme strengthened sustainable production, and demonstrated the sector’s viability, contributing to over USD 75 million in exports in 2025.