From 1997 to May 2025, WAIFEM made a total of 999 capacity building interventions in pursuit of its mandate. Of these events, 891 or 89.2 percent represents knowledge and skills upgrading through training courses / workshop / seminars while 108 or 10.8 percent represents missions (needs assessment and follow-up) and other capacity building-related activities, such as progress review meetings and impact assessment surveys/studies. A total of 28,068 participants benefited from the programme.
Of the total 28,068 participants that benefited from the programmes executed, Nigeria accounted for 10,248 or 36.5 percent, Ghana 5,597 or 19.9 percent, and The Gambia 4,162 or 14.8 percent. The number of participants from Sierra Leone was 3,818 or 13.6 percent of the attendees; socio-political situation in Liberia adversely influenced its low participation rate of 2,891 or 10.3 percent of the total. Non-regional participants began to take advantage of the existence of the Institute with them accounting for 1,352 attendees or 4.8 percent (See Graghs and Table below for additional details).