Maui Homelands Needs Assessment Project
Project PROFILE
Client:
Pa’upena Community Development Corporation (CDC)
Project Location:
Kula, Maui
Project Time Frame:
February 2020 – July 2021
Services:
Evaluation of Existing State Policy and Procedure
Survey of Beneficiaries and Waitlisters on Maui
Focus Groups
Community Meetings
Key Informant Interviews
Analysis of Newly Collected Data
Areas of Focus:
Engagement and empowerment of Homestead Associations and Beneficiaries
Collaboration with DHHL
Improvement of processes and procedures for beneficiaries to join the DHHL waitlist and receive leases for Hawaiian Homelands
Project Description
The vision of Pā‘upena Community Development Corporation (CDC) is to fulfill Prince Kūhiō’s century-old dream for native Hawaiians to reconnect with Waiohuli ahupua‘a in thriving agricultural and pastoral communities, and to share this paradigm throughout the pae ‘āina (archipelago). Pā‘upena Community Development Corporation’s mission is to provide resources and training to empower fellow Hawaiian Home Lands Trust beneficiaries to build homes and self-sufficient communities.
In October 2019, Pa’upena CDC received a right of entry (ROE) for 127 acres of Native Hawaiian homelands for the purpose of designing a new community for Native Hawaiians in furtherance of the purposes of the Native Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920. Pa’upena launched the Maui Homelands Needs Assessment project in February 2020 in collaboration with a number of native Hawaiian homestead organizations and participating staff from the Department of Hawaiian Homelands (DHHL). The project will use Maui community input to determine a process by which homestead associations and beneficiaries can more effectively collaborate with each other and with DHHL and to empower beneficiaries and homestead associations to participate in DHHL activities set forth in the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920. The project is partially funded by a Section 4 Addressing Rural and Tribal Data Gaps grant administered by Enterprise Community Partners.
PROJECT PARTNERS AND FUNDING SOURCES
Partners:
Kahikinui Hawaiian Homestead Association
Maui/Lana`i Mokupuni Council
Pu`unani Hawaiian Homestead Association
Funding Sources:
Enterprise Community Partners
Final Report
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