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and Sidi Ifni. Benefitting over 200 women our support is continuing work started under a U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation grant to promote cooperative development and management product quality hygiene and safety entrepreneurship and leadership development. The cooperative in Sidi Abed received training during the summer of 2014 and has been packaging algae since their training. The Sidi Ifni cooperative will be focused on producing fish products. Kosmos plans to continue supporting these cooperatives with next steps being training in marketing and business skills. Kosmos continues to support Corps Africa an organization that matches Moroccan youth with communities throughout Morocco to design projects that address poverty at local levels. Kosmos sponsored a Corps Africa fellow working in a rural village near Agadir in 2014. In addition to addressing local poverty the program enhances the skills of young development practitioners so they can continue to contribute positively long after they leave Corps Africa. INJAZ Al-Maghrib is a non-profit focused on delivering a broad base of entrepreneurship training opportunities to Moroccan youth by partnering with the private sector. Kosmos has supported INJAZ Al- Maghribs work in linking secondary and tertiary education with the business world and entrepreneurship for three consecutive years and we are looking forward to partnering with INJAZ on the programs expansion into more schools in 2015. CASE STUDY Morocco Capacity Advancement Partnership Kosmos has partnered with Chevron Morocco to develop and fund a new program designed to advance capacity in Morocco across three main focus areas the oil and gas industry economic development and healthcare. In the oil and gas focus area Kosmos is assisting in the development of a petroleum engineering minor at local academic institutions as well as providing support to enhance the technical capacity and skill level of ONHYM engineers and technical staff to meet the needs of the emerging hydrocarbon sector. In the economic development focus area Kosmos and Chevron along with the implementing organization Mercy Corps are assisting in the establishment of a Moroccan Center of Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility and Economic Development that will serve as a resource for ONHYM private companies and social development organizations. The healthcare focus area has engaged U.S. medical universities and the organization HEARTT to develop train-the-trainer programs for Moroccan doctors and specialist doctors particularly in the field of maternal and child health. 24 COUNTRY SPOTLIGHT MOROCCO