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activities has the potential for significant direct and indirect impacts upon coastal communities. A failure to manage these issues may negatively impact individuals and the societies where we work damage Kosmos reputation and relationships with stakeholders create complex legal liabilities and cause disruption to our business. Kosmos is implementing the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights in our operations. We have worked with The Fund for Peace a U.S. non-profit organization that works to prevent violent conflict and to promote sustainable security in both our past operations in Cameroon and in our current operations in Morocco and Western Sahara. Our goal is not only to prevent potential human rights abuses but also to encourage security providers to serve as advocates for protecting and promoting human rights. Social Impact Assessment Social Impact Assessment is a key part of how we capture and manage any societal or community risk stemming from our operations. The results of our Social Impact Assessments help develop the baseline of socioeconomic conditions before activity begins understand and mitigate any potential adverse impacts from the activities and collect information that enables our future activity to benefit workers communities and local businesses assuming that exploration is successful and development proceeds. While the Social Impact Assessment conclusions often help to further validate the Environmental Impact Assessment in 2015 we aim to improve the connectedness of the two assessment processes. We exercise due diligence so as to understand and manage the impact of our operations. Due diligence identifies our actual and potential human rights impacts and is a continuing process. Rather than conducting a stand-alone company-wide human rights risk assessment we have incorporated human rights into all of our Social Impact Assessments and have based our efforts on potential risk exposure. Adopting a proactive approach to human rights is good risk management. COMMERCIAL RELATIONSHIPS Kosmos expects our business partners agents suppliers and contractors to behave ethically. Their willingness to observe standards comparable to those set out in our Business Principles and our supporting policies will be a key consideration in any decision on whether to work with them. One company that we are pleased to work with is Atwood Oceanics. To read more about the business relationship between Kosmos and Atwood Oceanics and about the Atwood Achiever drillship please see the case study on page 20. In addition to our social investment activities another way we strive to build human capacity and economic opportunity is through our supply chain. We aim to maximize the amount of goods services and employment that we source locally. Our business approach aims to enable people to find jobs and local businesses to access supply chain opportunities through Kosmos. This is often difficult at the exploration stage in our project lifecycle where there are few non-technical jobs created and highly specialized equipment is often sourced globally. In 2014 we began using third parties to conduct early-stage supply chain assessments in areas where we plan to drill in the coming year. We are refining this approach in 2015 and plan to continue to increase our local content levels without compromising on quality safety or the timely delivery of critical goods and services. A woman fills her buckets with clean drinking water for her family in the Western Region of Ghana. The tap pictured above is fed by one of the water filtration stations built through Kosmos Energys multi-year partnership with Safe Water Network. Prior to the Safe Water project the water sources in this coastal area were contaminated by high levels of salinity. 11