This issue is a round-up of Invest Salone’s work to strengthen Sierra Leone’s investment. It includes highlights from an international investor delegation exploring opportunities in infrastructure and tourism, a roundtable on the legal ecosystem, new insights on sustainable finance and stories celebrating the country’s growing festival scene.
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.
This issue is a round-up of Invest Salone’s work supporting private sector–led growth in Sierra Leone. It includes highlights from our impact to date in unlocking investment and strengthening businesses, updates on the poultry feed sector and investment opportunities, insights from our Technical Assistance Facility and stories on how our partnerships are helping women entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses.
As part of our work to encourage investment into Sierra Leone, we co-hosted a delegation of nine major international investment institutions. During the five-day trip, participants visited 20 firms and interacted with around 50 more through several events such as a pitch night where entrepreneurs pitched and received feedback on their businesses.
In September, Invest Salone attended the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) annual conference. Invest Salone consultant, Pooja Melwani, was invited to speak and shared our experience of the broad range of private sector development strategies we employ to support the private and public sectors in tackling constraints to doing business in Sierra Leone.
Read about Invest Salone’s new downloadable Investment-Readiness Insights Report that provides impact investors with practical guidance on how to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Sierra Leone to become more investment ready.
In this issue, we share Invest Salone’s new downloadable Investment Toolkit for SMEs in Sierra Leone, which provides support to help firms prepare for impact investment.
This issue of our newsletter has stories on our work with the textiles, tourism and agriculture industries in Sierra Leone, as well as information about investment opportunities.
This issue contains a round-up of our latest social media highlights, stories and publications. It includes sector specific information on aquaculture and agriculture in Sierra Leone, as well as success stories and investment opportunities.