From 1997 to 2024, WAIFEM made a total of 978 capacity building interventions in pursuit of its mandate. Of these events, 873 or 89.3 percent represents knowledge and skills upgrading through training courses / workshop / seminars while 105 or 10.7 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 27,405 participants benefited from the programme.
Of the total 27,405 participants that benefited from the programmes executed, Nigeria accounted for 10,109 or 36.9 percent, Ghana 5,512 or 20.1 percent, and The Gambia 3,952 or 14.4 percent. The number of participants from Sierra Leone was 3,690 or 13.5 percent of the attendees; socio-political situation in Liberia adversely influenced its low participation rate of 2,790 or 10.2 percent of the total. Non-regional participants began to take advantage of the existence of the Institute with them accounting for 1,350 attendees or 4.9 percent (See Graghs and Table below for additional details).