The
West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management (WAIFEM) has
gained international recognition for capacity building targeted at economic
growth and development within and outside the West African sub-region. WAIFEM
is currently in the news for strategic capacity building programmes designed to
foster growth and regional integration among member-countries.
Since
its establishment on 22 July, 1996, by the Central Banks of five Anglophone
West African countries, namely, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra
Leone, WAIFEM has trained over 14,000 senior policy makers from Central Banks
in the sub-region, Ministries of Finance, Planning, Budget office and relevant
public institutions involved in economic management. People often come from
