Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 19, Number 2, 1 Pepeluali 2002 — OHA Strategic Plan goals get green light [ARTICLE]

OHA Strategic Plan goals get green light

By Manu Boyd At its meeting Jan, 10 at Kō'ele,Lāna'i, the OHA board approved 10 goals developed by community volunteers and staff to guide OHA's Strategic Plan, a process set in plaee a year ago, Goals focus in the areas of advocacy and native rights; culture; eeonomie development; education, environment and natural resources; nationhood; policy; social services; land and housing; and heahh, Guiding the process have been a core group of community volunteers led by facilitator Annelle Amaral, Core group members are Trustees John Waihe'e and Donald Cataluna; Trustee Aides Crayn Akina and Marion Shim; Myron "Pinky" Thompson (dec,); Julian Ako (Kamehameha Schools); and OHA staff including Administrator Clyde Nāmu'o, Rona Rodenhurst, and Jalna Keala, Statewide community meetings are scheduled in February and March (see schedule below), Following are the board-approved goals from whieh objectives and actions are being developed whieh will guide OHA programs and activities for the next five years, beginning July 1,

1. Advocacy-Native Rights — By 2007, OHA shall have devised and implemented strategies to protect Native Hawaiian rights and entitlements and secured at least one significant legal outcome; created a legal mechanism to assure a predictable ongoing revenue stream from the Public Land Trust; and ensured the settlement of the blood quantum issue, 2. Culture — By 2004, OHA shall have drafted a plan that identifies and provides solutions to safeguard endangered traditions, practices and rights, and subsequently put into practice steps that will protect, re-establish and enhanee Hawaiian cultural assets by the year 2007, 3. Eeonomie DeveIopment — By 2007, OHA's investment in the creation and retention of weahh for Native Hawaiians shall have: 1) impacted at least 7 percent of the total statewide Native Hawaiian population by improving eeonomie solvency and 2) accounted for a return on investment to OHA "equal or greater than the cost of capital used to fund the activity and/or OHA's current rate of return (total fund) from the Native Hawaiian Trust Fund," See PLAN on page 5

PLAN from page 4 4. Education — By 2007, OHA shall have assisted 28,750 Native Hawaiians to achieve age appropriate literacy, 5. Environment-NaturaI Resources — By 2007, OHA shall have protected natural and cultural resources through the adoption of stewardship standards by 5 public and 10 private entities as evidenced by research, studies and partnerships; and the enactment of new laws, ordinances and rules, 6. Nationhood — By 2007, OHA shall have assisted, coordinated and enabled the creation of a unified Hawaiian Nation, 7. Policy — By 2007, OHA shall have initiated, collaborated, partnered and advocated with other agencies and organizations through five Memoranda of Agreements that will comm.it the signatories to act

assertively together on behalf of their beneficiaries-in-common, 8. SociaI Services — By 2007, OHA shall have improved the quality of life for 17,500 Native Hawaiians in the areas of food, shelter, and safety, 9. Land and Housing — By 2003 OHA shall have increased the percentage of its investment in real estate by no less than 15 percent and shall develop strategies to enhanee the use of these assets to benefit the Native Hawaiian people, 10. Health — By 2007, OHA shall have collaborated with other Native Hawaiian heahh care providers to increase the acquisition of resources from federal, state, counties and others, to address the heahh care needs of Native Hawaiians with particular focus on the needs of the aged and elderly, including but not limited to prevention, treatment, education, and other needs, ■