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.
Sierra Leone voluntary sustainable finance principles: Sector-level guidance for financial institutions
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).