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.
A rapid assessment of Sierra Leone’s tech startup ecosystem and blockchain potential, highlighting opportunities, challenges, and policy recommendations.
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.
A practical guide to institutionalising public–private dialogue (PPD) in Sierra Leone, bridging business and government to drive inclusive growth.
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.
Supporting women to build profitable and sustainable businesses not only benefits them but also their communities and countries. Find out how Invest Salone is working with its partners to invest in women and accelerate progress.
Discover how Capitol Foods maximised the COMPETE Salone process by drawing on Invest Salone’s support, guidance and resources in this Q&A.
Fashion One is at the forefront of change in Sierra Leone’s fashion sector, with a business model which bridges the gap between bespoke tailoring and off-the-shelf clothing.
Through PROSPER Salone, Invest Salone has partnered with Acumen to run a series of investment-ready bootcamps. This Roundtable was organised to discuss the outcomes of the bootcamp and showcase the firms to potential investors.