From 1997 to June 2024, WAIFEM made a total of 949 capacity building interventions in pursuit of its mandate. Of these events, 844 or 88.9 percent represents knowledge and skills upgrading through training courses / workshop / seminars while 105 or 11.1 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 26,508 participants benefited from the programme.
Of the total 26,508 participants that benefited from the programmes executed, Nigeria accounted for 9,936 or 37.5 percent, Ghana 5,313 or 20.0 percent, and The Gambia 3,860 or 14.6 percent. The number of participants from Sierra Leone was 3,528 or 13.3 percent of the attendees; socio-political situation in Liberia adversely influenced its low participation rate of 2,649 or 10.0 percent of the total. Non-regional participants began to take advantage of the existence of the Institute with them accounting for 1223 attendees or 4.6 percent (See Graghs and Table below for additional details).