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
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.