Presentation of the progress report of ProSAM to the

Steering Committee

Patrice SEWADE, Coordinator-ProSAM-CRF

Togoudo, April 8th, 2015

•Activities

•Financial point

Plan

Activities

Exchange workshop of the Consortium Partners to makeimprovements requested by FARA

Meeting / workshop of clarification of each partner’sroles and responsibilities for the achievement of the objectives

Meeting / workshop of activities planning and allocation of budget to the project Partners

Drafting, validation and signing of the Consortium Agreement

Establishment of ProSAM Bodies

ProSAM launch workshop preparation

Launch of the Soybean Afitin-Milk Project

Training Workshop of accountants for the projectimplementation by the institutions, on the administrative and financial management of FARA fund, under the EC funding

First meeting of ProSAM Steering Committee

First meeting of ProSAM Technical Committee

Achievement of baseline studies: Workshop of methodology development, field survey, return of survey results

Visit to Benin of the European Partner (IICT Portugal)

Brainstorming Workshop for the SOJAGNON Consortium’s Partners of Benin on how to operationalize the annual action plan of ProSAM

Brainstorming Workshop on the outlines of ProSAMcommunication plan

Mission for review of ProSAM Monitoring and Evaluation indicators in Burkina Faso

In-depth studies of the results of the survey on Soybean Afitin and Soybean Milk processing technologies by research institutions and

Consertation sciences with other project partners

Financial point

In total, an amount of Euro 4,301.35 has been paid to the staff

The technical staff received Euro 3,169.42

The administrative staff received : Euro 1,131.93

Human resources

Several Workshops have been organized. Theseinclude: workshop for making contacts with projectpartners, information sharing Workshop, Steering and Technical Committee meetings. A total of Euro 12,749.26 was spent for this purpose.

The first visit to Benin in December 2014 of the partner from Portugal, Dr. Luis Goulão: Euro 2,110.45, as part of the budget allocated to IICT.

In this section a total of Euro 14,860.72 was spent.

Training, workshops, seminars

Office equipment and furniture, Fuel were purchasedand a car has been hired for the project management

In addition, work documents have been translatedinto English

In this section a total of Euro 14,145.68 were spent.

Durables and consumables

To inform the audience, about the ProSAM project, some communication materials were developed; theseinclude notepads, information leaflets, banners, plates and signs.

The total cost was Euro 1,468.08

Publication and Knowledge sharing

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pre-financing of INRAB for the diagnostic investigation: Euro 2,827.96

pre-financing of FSA-UAC for the diagnostic investigation : Euro 2,651.61

pre-financing of INRAB for Research activities: Euro3,000

pre-financing of FSA for Research activities: Euro 3,000

Overhead: Euro 2,289.48

pre-financing of FARA: Euro 6,726.38

The total is: Euro : 20,495.43

Other spending

Conclusion The coordination of the project follows a well defined

methodology

Project management tools provided by the grant Manager of

FARA (Mrs. Vesta NUNOO) and SOJAGNON management

documents (procedures, memos and contracts, consortium

agreement) were used to easily run the project during this

period.

Purchases were made following the rules of the art.

A total of Euro 55,271.32 were spent for the period

September 2014 to February 2015.