AAEF Assessment Tool for Policies, Projects, and Programs

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1	ʻĀina Aloha Economic Futures
2	Assessment Tool for Policies, Projects, and Programs
3	ainaalohafutures.com
4	Background and Purpose:
5	This tool advances the values set forth in the 'Āina Aloha Economic Futures Declaration: 1. ‘Āina Aloha: Our economic strategies prioritize our kuleana to steward our precious natural resources. 2. ‘Ōpū Ali‘i: Our leaders understand that their privilege to lead is directly dependent on those they serve. 3. ‘Imi ‘Oi Kelakela: We are driven by creativity and innovation that enhances our way of life. 4. Ho‘okipa: We manage our resources in a way that allows us to fulfill our roles. This assessment also embodies key ideas in the Huliau Action Agenda, which incorporated comments from over 200 participants who helped to develop it. The tool is intended to be used by various entities to move Hawaiʻi closer to an ʻĀina Aloha future. The tool can help to: 1. Guide and strengthen the strategic focuses of organizations and enterprises 2. Guide organizations and enterprises in self-assessments of their projects, proposals, policies, procurement, strategic plans, etc. 3. Guide private-sector funders in developing RFPs and assessing proposals received 4. Guide policy makers in developing laws, funding programs, and prioritizing efforts. Weights in Column O reflect AAEF priorities. Entities using this tool for their own internal purposes may want to adjust the weights for their internal focuses.
6	Get Started: 1. Make a copy of this template. In the top left corner of this Google sheet, go to File > Make a copy. Edit the name of your copy, then click OK. 2. On your new copy, answer the questions, and fill out the assessment tool.
7	Assessment:
8	1. Which items from the Huliau Action Agenda are demonstrated in your proposal? (go to Huliau Action Agenda sheet, second tab)
9	2. Are there other primary goals addressed in your proposal that are strongly aligned with the aforementioned Declaration and/or Action Agenda? (See bottom of Huliau Action Agenda sheet)
10	3. Please check the boxes below to indicate the impact of your proposed work relative to the assessment dimensions. SELECT ONE OPTION PER ROW.
11	4. Check your score and reflect on your findings.
12		a. Does my proposal make incremental improvements, significant improvements, or does it support positive systems change?
13		b. Are there areas where I can improve my proposal to have greater impact?
14		c. Are there others I can work with to strengthen the impact of my proposal?
15		d. What resources do I need? Or what policy changes are needed to forward my proposal?
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17		Assessment Dimension	Negatively impacts conditions	-8	Does not impact conditions	0	Incrementally improves conditions	+2	Significantly improves conditions	+4	Supports positive systems change	+8	Your comments on your selection	Raw Score	Action Agenda Multiplier	Weighted Score
18	1 (Select one per row)	Supports the vibrancy and integrity of Hawaiʻi environments (land, water, ocean, sky, and native flora and fauna)	Produces environmental damage		Has no impact, or a net neutral impact, on Hawai'i's environments		Contributes in a demonstrable manner to the vibrancy and integrity of Hawaiʻi environments as a secondary or indirect focus of activities		Focuses on improving the fertility or integrity of the environment as a core activity		Focuses on improving the fertility or integrity of the environment as a core activity and supports others to engage in similar efforts			0	2	0
19	2 (Select one per row)	Positively impacts community well-being, equity, cohesion, capacity, and empowerment	Harms community well-being, creates community dissension, or undermines community self-determination		Does not impact, positively or negatively, community well-being		Improves community well-being, especially related to meeting basic needs; and contributes to building community cohesion and the capacity of individuals in the community		Improves community well-being, especially related to meeting basic needs; directly strengthens community cohesion; and builds the capacity of individuals, 'ohana, and organizations		Demonstrates community self-determination and improves long term positive change in community conditions, especially related to meeting basic needs			0	2	0
20	3 (Select one per row)	Supports Hawaiian cultural vitality and the application of ʻike kūpuna including the use of ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi and symbiotic, ancestral relationships to ʻāina	Diminishes Hawaiian cultural vitality, limits the use of ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, constrains relationships to ʻāina, fails to recognize the value of ʻike kūpuna, or gives non-cultural practitioners authority to determine the cultural validity of assessments by cultural practitioners		Uses Hawaiian cultural symbols and some ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi but does not incorporate Hawaiian values, ʻike kūpuna, or the importance of relationships to ʻāina		Applies Hawaiian cultural values in its operations, engages in periodic mālama ʻāina activities, includes the use of ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, and recognizes the value of ʻike kūpuna		Incorporates ʻike kūpuna in strategies and tactics, demonstrates a close relationship to ʻāina, and creates opportunities that foster Hawaiian cultural vitality, including the use of ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi		Incorporates ʻike kūpuna and Hawaiian cultural vitality in its core goals, engages ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi as a key component of its work, strengthens community-level symbiotic relationships to ʻāina, and assists other entities to achieve the same			0	2	0
21	4 (Select one per row)	Increases hiring, career readiness, and leadership opportunities for target groups (in preferential order: Hawaiʻi residents, expatriate Native Hawaiians, and Hawaiʻi-born individuals who wish to return)	Hires non-Hawaiʻi residents for a majority of open positions or includes a majority of non-Hawai'i residents in the upper leadership of the organization		Does not provide a net gain in employment or career opportunities, or hires individuals in the target group only for lower-end positions but not for management or leadership roles		Hires individuals in the target group for 50% of positions, including some management or leadership positions, but does not provide training opportunities to ensure upward career ladders for its employees		Hires individuals in the target group for 80% of positions, including upper leadership positions, and provides training opportunities to ensure upward career ladders for its employees; or focuses on career readiness training for Hawaiʻi residents		Ensures that individuals in the target group are hired for 100% of positions, including upper leadership positions, and provides training opportunities to ensure upward career ladders for its employees; or focuses on career readiness training for Hawaiʻi residents related to land stewardship, food production, energy self-sufficiency, technology, education, or other sectors that would help to diversify Hawaiʻi's economy			0	1	0
22	5 (Select one per row)	Contributes to building a circular economy to create regenerative outcomes for ʻāina, natural resources, and communities	Takes finite natural resources to make products intended to have a limited lifecycle after which the products become waste that must be disposed, or perpetuates reliance on single-use products and imported items		Does not involve the use, creation, demolition, or disposal of items or structures, and does not involve the purchase of single-use items and imported items		Develops or provides alternatives to single-use products, or creates programs to help communities reduce their reliance on single-use products and imported items		Contributes to "return and renew" practices where products or structures can be disassembled at the end of their useful life cycle and reused, refurbished, or recycled; or scales up programs to help communities reduce their reliance on single-use products and imported items		Organizes networks that reuse or recycle each other's "waste" and/or designs products or structures that are long-lasting, easily repaired, and recyclable when no longer usable; or creates programs that shift communities' practices toward adopting circular economy principles, including reducing reliance on single-use products and imported items			0	2	0
23	6 (Select one per row)	Improves Hawaiʻi's long-term energy sustainability in ways that are supported by impacted communities	Relies on non-renewable energy sources and does not implement measures to reduce consumption, or generates renewable energy sources that are not supported by the impacted communities		Has no positive or negative impact on Hawai'i's energy sustainability and does not create issues that affect communities		Generates renewable energy to meet at least 75% of its energy needs and does so in ways that does not raise concerns of others in the community		Engages in efforts to assist ʻohana, organizations, or businesses to reduce their energy consumption and generate renewable energy, in ways that are supported by impacted communities, to create a net positive impact on Hawaiʻi's energy self-sufficiency goals		Leads efforts to assist communities or public-sector entities to reduce their energy consumption and to generate renewable energy, in ways that are supported by impacted communities, to create a net positive impact on Hawaiʻi's energy self-sufficiency goals			0	1	0
24	7 (Select one per row)	Incorporates innovative approaches (involving methods, processes, technologies, relationships, and communications) that improve the well-being of communities and natural environments	Applies approaches that are inefficient, extractive, or that negatively affect the well-being of communities and natural environments		Does not create or apply innovative approaches or applies innovations that have no impact on the well-being of communities or natural environments		Introduces innovations that improve the well-being of communities and natural environments		Introduces innovations that improve the well-being, sustainability, and resilience of communities and natural environments		Introduces innovations that improve the well-being, sustainability, and resilience of communities and natural environments, and assists others to do the same			0	1	0
25	8 (Select one per row)	Improves Hawaiʻi's long-term food security and builds or sustains vital, self-reliant community food systems	Perpetuates the importation of food from non-Hawaiʻi sources or reduces the vitality of community food systems		Has no impact on Hawaiʻi's food security or community food systems		Contributes to collaborations in which producers, retailers, community members, and government partner to create vibrant local food economies, including subsistence systems, that enhance and sustain environmental and community well-being and reduce dependence on imported food		Supports collaborations in which producers, retailers, community members, and government partner to create vibrant local food economies, including subsistence systems, that enhance and sustain environmental and community well-being and reduce dependence on imported food		Organizes and supports collaborations in which producers, retailers, community members, and government partner to create vibrant local food economies, including subsistence systems, that enhance and sustain environmental and community well-being and reduce dependence on imported food			8	2	16
26	9 (Select one per row)	Improves the resilience and diversity of locally owned and resourced small businesses that align with ʻĀina Aloha goals	Diminishes the ability of locally owned and resourced small businesses to achieve long-term economic viability, or creates barriers to opening new businesses for Hawaiʻi entrepreneurs		Maintains conditions resulting in high closer rates of Hawaiʻi small businesses, engagement in dominant industries and markets, and underrepresentation of various groups in the business sector		Procures a majority of goods and services from locally owned and resourced small businesses that align with ʻĀina Aloha goals where those goods and services are available		Coordinates, promotes, or provides support for locally owned and resourced small businesses that align with ʻĀina Aloha goals to enhance their long-term resilience		Expands markets for locally owned and resourced small businesses, or stimulates the birth and long-term resilience of locally owned and resourced businesses that align with ʻĀina Aloha goals and that diversify the profile of owners and businesses in Hawaiʻi			0	1	0
27	10 (Select one per row)	Fully commits to and participates in an equitable, pono value chain involved in the production, marketing, distribution, and provisioning of goods and services	Engages in opportunistic or exploitative practices that harm ʻāina or communities or that take advantage of employees, business associates in the supply and distribution chains, consumers, or service recipients		Does not engage in opportunistic or exploitative practices that harm ʻāina or communities or that take advantage of employees, business associates in the supply and distribution chains, consumers, or service recipients		Ensures that employees and others they conduct business with receive a fair portion of the revenue created by their joint efforts		Establishes organizational policies to ensure that employees and others they conduct business with receive a fair portion of the revenue created by their joint efforts, and seeks to conduct business with supply markets that uphold fair trade practices		Creates training opportunities and systems to help Hawaiʻi entities ensure that employees and others they conduct business with receive a fair portion of the revenue created by their joint efforts, and seeks to conduct business with supply markets that uphold fair trade practices			0	1	0
28													RAW SCORE:	8	WEIGHTED SCORE:	16
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31	SCALE:		-120		0		30		60		120		YOUR SELF ASSESSMENT:			16
32			Bad for Hawai‘i		No Movement or Not Applicable		Moving toward ʻĀina Aloha		Practicing 'Āina Aloha		Leading ʻĀina Aloha
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