Economic Stability
Engaging in strategies to enhance the economic development and financial empowerment of the lāhui will ensure that Native Hawaiians progress toward a state of economic stability.
Strategic Outcome: Strengthened Capability for ʻOhana to Meet Living Needs, including Housing; Strengthened Effective Implementation of the HHCA
Strategy 7: Advance policies, programs and practices that strengthen ʻohana abilities to pursue multiple pathways toward economic stability
- 7.1. Increased number / percent of Native Hawaiian ʻohana who are able to provide high quality keiki and kupuna care;
- 7.2. Increase access to capital and credit for community strengthening Native Hawaiian businesses and individuals;
- 7.3. Increase number of Native Hawaiian ʻohana who are resource stable
(financial, subsistence, other); and
- 7.4. Increased Native Hawaiian employment rate.
Strategy 8: Cultivate economic development in and for Hawaiian communities.
- 8.1. Increased number of successful, community strengthening Native Hawaiian-owned businesses;
- 8.2. Establishment of new markets for Native Hawaiian products (eg. kalo, lokoʻia grown fish, etc.) that can provide Native Hawaiian producers a livable wage; and
- 8.3. Established and operationalized indigenous economic system consistent with Native Hawaiian knowledge, culture, values, and practices