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our stakeholders and their expectations. In 2014 we
began integrating stakeholder issues and engagement
into our enterprise risk workshops, value assurance
reviews and asset business plans. We also continued
development of a grievance mechanism and stakeholder
engagement platform to help assets efciently capture,
track and follow up on stakeholder feedback. Two assets
in North America are poised to launch the platforms in
early 2015 and two global assets planned by year end.
Our agship social investment programs continued
to make good progress in 2014. The second phase
of our education initiative, the Program for Education
Development of Equatorial Guinea (PRODEGE), got
underway in Equatorial Guinea. The program distributed
115,000 student guides for 33,000 students in grades
two and three, as well as rst grade student report cards
and other learning materials to all primary schools across
the country. PRODEGE staff also conducted intensive
training for teachers and school supervisors on how to
use these tools as part of the active learning approach.
PRODEGE is proving to be an enduring program and
is being integrated into education delivery. The Ministry
of Education has established a unit within the ministry
to expand active learning to all primary schools. The
University of Equatorial Guinea has established a faculty
of education in order to strengthen and sustain in service
and pre-service teacher training. Planning is underway
to launch the junior secondary elements of the program
in 2015.
In North Dakota SUCCEED 2020, which aims to
improve the transition from secondary school to higher
education and the workplace, entered its third year.
In addition to providing professional development to
some 2500 teachers, administrators and college and
career counselors, the program engaged more than 250
businesses across the state. Businesses participated
in career fairs, hosted job shadows and internships and
advised on curricula and programs. More than 2500
students from 66 school districts participated in eight
college and career fairs and more than 3000 students
participated in SUCCEED 2020 Science, Technology,
Engineering and Math (STEM) activities ranging from
robotics clubs to project-based coursework.
With our transformation to a pure play exploration
and production company complete, we have begun a
comprehensive review of our environment, social and
governance strategy. Through this work, we will enhance
our value proposition by driving operational effectiveness,
reducing risk, aligning with our core business, protecting
our license to operate and helping us anticipate and
manage stakeholder expectations. We expect the
strategy refresh to be complete by late 2015.
Hess continues to meet our goal of top quartile
performance in our sector for the quality of our
environment, social and governance disclosure. We
believe that balanced reporting is foundational to being a
trusted energy partner.
For the sixth consecutive year, Hess was included in
the CDP S&P 500 Leadership Index for our climate
change reporting. Hess was one of only ten U.S. based
companies to earn a spot on Corporate Knights’ 100
Most Sustainable Corporations list. Since 2008 Hess has
been named to the Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s
100 Best Corporate Citizens List. The company was also
listed in the 2014 Dow Jones Sustainability Index North
America for the fth consecutive year and achieved other
investor and media recognition for our sustainability
efforts. More detailed discussion of our environment,
social and governance programs, progress and
performance data can be found in our corporate
sustainability report.