Country Work
Sierra Leone
West Africa
Active fieldwork and institutional engagement
Overview
Sierra Leone is the first applied country context for Parvin's current work on financial inclusion, MSMEs, digital financial usage and Productive Financial Inclusion.
Current Fieldwork
3,314
Businesses mapped
529
Field surveys completed
495
Clean responses
119
Variables per interview
Selected descriptive findings
52.5% of surveyed businesses accept digital payments.
90.7% of surveyed businesses reported smartphone access.
94% were within five minutes of an agent.
3.6% reported paying suppliers digitally.
1% reported paying workers digitally.
Source: CAFIA fieldwork, 2026. Findings shown here describe the current cleaned fieldwork dataset and should be read with the final methodology and limitations once published.