Sierra Leone
IGC Sierra Leone partners with policymakers and other stakeholders to conduct frontier research in areas of importance to the Government and its partners, with the shared aim of inclusive and sustainable growth. Our research focuses on a wide range of areas including tax policy, access to renewable energy, and political reform and representation. Our work on mobile vaccine clinics gained widespread attention in 2024.
Explore our work

Last mile delivery vaccine uptake in Sierra Leone
Clean energy priorities in developing countries

Three reasons why increasing domestic revenue remains a challenge in Sierra Leone

Are we on the path to sustainable health electrification? Lessons from remote power quality and reliability monitoring at health facilities in Sierra Leone

Improving women's political representation: Insights from Sierra Leone

Improving access to renewable energy in rural Sierra Leone

Data revolution: Transforming Sierra Leone

Simplifying property tax administration in Africa: Piloting a points-based valuation in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Working with political parties to strengthen candidate selection processes in Sierra Leone
About
Since 2002, when the ten-year civil war came to an end, Sierra Leone has experienced wide fluctuations in GDP, a negative trade balance, and a fiscal deficit. Established in 2008, IGC Sierra Leone has worked with the local and national government to confront Sierra Leone’s challenges to growth.
We have worked on trade, governance, and growth in important sectors such as agriculture, energy, and mining. Early projects included collaborating on strategy for accessing the US market through the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), collating research on the economic impacts of Ebola, and, more recently, supporting Freetown City Council to increase own-source revenues through reforms to property tax and business licensing. We continue to work on areas including tax policy, coordinating state agencies, agricultural firm productivity, energy access, small-scale mining and its impact on the environment.
IGC Sierra Leone has a close working relationship with the Ministries of: Finance; Planning and Economic Development; Energy; Agriculture and Forestry, as well as Trade and Industry, Freetown City Council, Kenema City Council, Kono District Council, and several government departments and agencies. In these relationships, we have responded to research demands by engaging international experts and researchers to produce cutting-edge policy research.
Our team


Mohamed Ibrahim Justice Ganawah
Country Economist, Sierra Leone, International Growth CentreAbou Bakarr Kamara
Senior Country Economist, Sierra Leone, International Growth Centre
Marian Marrah
Country Research and Operations Manager, Sierra Leone, International Growth Centre
Niccolò Meriggi
Country Economist, Sierra Leone, International Growth CentreFeatured Researchers

Rachel Glennerster
Associate Professor, University of Chicago
Katherine E Casey
Professor of Political Economy, Stanford University
Wilson Prichard
Researcher, International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD)
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Professor of Economics, Yale University
Maarten Voors
Associate Professor, Wageningen UniversityContact
37 Lightfoot Boston Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Email: [email protected]
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