Executive Summary:

The Project Management Plan (PMP) for the Smart Energy Solutions for Africa (SESA) provides an overview of all the management structure and articulates the responsibilities at the role/partner level in order to ensure the production of high-quality results in line with the project plan as described in the Grant Agreement.

The document is divided into four main sections: the first one details who the different bodies of the project are, from decision level bodies to the nomination of the different Work Packages (WP) and Task Leaders (TL), including their specific role within the SESA project. The second section includes the Work Plan Structure, including the Gantt chart, together with a Work Breakdown structure, the schedule of the different deliverables and milestones, all together indicating the responsible partners agreed for each. The third section defines all internal communication tools and channels that the Project Coordinator has set up to facilitate exchange with and among project partners. Finally, the last section is focused on the Quality Assurance that details the procedures to be followed in the elaboration of all project deliverables, including the review process, needed for guaranteeing high-quality level outcomes and an estimated timeline for all of these procedures.

Overall, the document aims at defining the governance structure, which will (1) encourage all project partners to behave in accordance with the consortium mission, values, norms, and culture; and (2) establish clear authority and decision-making levels.

The present update intends to provide the latest on how the SESA project is organising delivery, responsibilities and exchange of information. It complements some paragraphs with additional information following another year of the project and includes also specification on new forms of organisation which have been adopted to improve its overall unfolding.