The document is a progress report from the coordinator of ProSAM to the Steering Committee. It summarizes the activities conducted, including workshops, meetings, studies and visits. Financially, it reports that over €55,000 has been spent, including over €14,000 on human resources, workshops and trainings, over €14,000 on durable goods and consumables, and over €20,000 to partners for research activities. It concludes that project management has followed the defined methodology and purchases have followed proper procedures.

1. Presentation of the progress
report of ProSAM to the
Steering Committee
Patrice SEWADE, Coordinator-ProSAM-CRF
Togoudo, April 8th, 2015

2. •Activities
•Financial point
Plan

3. Activities

4.  Exchange workshop of the Consortium Partners to make
improvements requested by FARA
 Meeting / workshop of clarification of each partner’s
roles 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

5.  Establishment of ProSAM Bodies
 ProSAM launch workshop preparation
 Launch of the Soybean Afitin-Milk Project
 Training Workshop of accountants for the project
implementation by the institutions, on the administrative
and financial management of FARA fund, under the EC
funding

6.  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

7.  Brainstorming Workshop on the outlines of ProSAM
communication 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

8. Financial point

9.  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

10.  Several Workshops have been organized. These
include: workshop for making contacts with project
partners, 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

11.  Office equipment and furniture, Fuel were purchased
and a car has been hired for the project management
 In addition, work documents have been translated
into English
 In this section a total of Euro 14,145.68 were spent.
Durables and consumables

12.  To inform the audience, about the ProSAM project,
some communication materials were developed; these
include notepads, information leaflets, banners, plates
and signs.
 The total cost was Euro 1,468.08
Publication and Knowledge sharing

13. o
 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: Euro
3,000
 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

14. 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.