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…
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.
A report on OpenIDEO’s COVID-19 Business Pivot Challenge to better understand and support business adaptation in response to COVID-19. This report brings together the lived experience from the 700+ business…
COVID-19 and smallholder producers’ access to markets
A research brief by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on how smallholder farmers can respond to a health crisis, drawing on lessons learnt from Sierra Leone,…
A report from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change with insights into how investment policy can adapt to COVID-19, and the potential for new investment opportunities in the wake…
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.