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.
Invest Salone Overview: Facilitating inclusive economic growth in Sierra Leone
Improving access to finance for women in Sierra Leone
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.
Invest Salone’s Technical Assistance Facility: How can we help you?
Through its Technical Assistance Facility (TAF), Invest Salone supports firms to become more competitive. Find out more about TAF and what the process involves.
Invest Salone ANDE Conference talk – Facilitating a favourable investment climate: Lessons from Sierra Leone
This presentation shares Invest Salone’s lessons learned from working in economies like Sierra Leone, which are emerging from fragility.
Facilitating a favourable investment climate: Lessons from Sierra Leone
Invest Salone’s Pooja Melwani spoke at the ANDE Annual Conference 2023 on how Invest Salone’s work focuses on both reducing the cost and risk of doing business in Sierra Leone and on supporting firms to grow. Download the presentation.
How does Invest Salone work with Sierra Leone’s agriculture sector to help boost its potential?
Discover how our support is helping Sierra Leonean businesses to tackle growth constraints, develop new business models and become more competitive and productive.
Sierra Leonean Investment-Readiness Insights Report
Explore insights from Acumen’s investment-readiness bootcamps, covering the assessments conducted on the six participating firms; findings during the implementation of the workplans; and recommendations on how these firms can become investment ready.
Invest Salone Technical Assistance Facility Overview: Helping firms tackle constraints to growth and exports
Find out how Invest Salone’s Technical Assistance Facility helps Sierra Leonean firms tackle constraints to growth and exports, by providing access to specialised advisory services.
The Cashew Sector in Sierra Leone
A scientific survey of raw cashew nuts (RCN) in Sierra Leone found that cashew nuts can become one of Sierra Leone’s major export products assuming that companies deal professionally, especially with farmers and buyers.