From 1997 – 2011, WAIFEM made a total of 390 capacity building interventions in pursuit of its mandate.  Of these events, 323 or 82.8 percent represented knowledge and skills upgrading through training courses/workshop/seminars while 67 or 17.2 percent represented 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 10,802 participants benefited from the programme. 
Of the total 10,802 participants that benefited from programmes executed, Nigeria accounted for 4,878 or 45.2 percent, Ghana 1,830 or 16.9 percent, and Sierra Leone 1,547 or 14.3 percent.  The number of participants from The Gambia was 1,587 or 14.7 percent of the attendees; socio-political situation in Liberia adversely influenced its low participation rate of 655 or 6.1 percent of the total.  Non-regional participants began to take advantage of the existence of the Institute with them accounting for 305 attendees or 2.8 percent (See Graphs and Table  1 below for additional details)