This issue is a round-up of Invest Salone’s work driving private sector growth in Sierra Leone. It features highlights from our collaboration with international finance institutions, the successful launch of the country’s first local currency corporate bond, new insights on the voluntary carbon market, and initiatives to strengthen sustainable finance, fashion and textiles, and innovation.
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.
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.
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.
This presentation shares Invest Salone’s lessons learned from working in economies like Sierra Leone, which are emerging from fragility.
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.
Discover how our support is helping Sierra Leonean businesses to tackle growth constraints, develop new business models and become more competitive and productive.
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.