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(DSM) to guide our actions and partnerships. We will
continue working with partners (Korero O Te’ Orau, Cook
Islands Voyaging Society, and House of Ariki) to support
efforts ensuring Cook Islands communities
are informed and able to put forward their
views. Concurrently, we are backing a Natural
Capital Standard market survey by Changing
Tastes aimed at developing environmentally,
socially, and culturally affirmative tuna
products connected to Indigenous guardians
closest to the fish.
In late 2020, a second Ocean Kinship
initiative gained momentum. Key partners
explored a new approach to whole-domain
ocean guardianship based on rooting policy
and governance systems in human reciprocity
and relationships with the Ocean. This shifts
extractive legal and policy frameworks, dependent on
property ownership, to models incorporating Indigenous
concepts of kinship with the living world. We are
supporting a framing document to identify emblematic
cases and other legal actions that can advance Ocean
Kinship as a foundation for transforming failing governance
of the world’s largest, deepest, most thriving ocean.
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Finally, our convening-based Identity stream needed to
pivot due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Pacific Festival
of Arts and Culture, a launching point for much of our
Identity work, is now scheduled for 2024. In
the interim, we have invested in optimizing
the use of online spaces. Virtual talanoa
(space to converse and discuss) continued
throughout the year to focus on identifying
common values, voice, and policy at regional
scale to amplify and secure Pasifika Peoples’
self-determined vision for a thriving Pacific.
A growing talanoa community is central to
partnership with the Polynesian Voyaging
Society’s 5-year pan-Pacific voyage. This
two-canoe voyage will include a virtual
third canoe, Vaka Pasifika, designed as
a global campaign that parallels the big
ocean journey across diverse media platforms, generating
Pasifika solutions for a thriving future. We are working with
the Polynesian Voyaging Society, Kamehameha Schools,
and Arizona State University to design and implement an
education and communications platform that launches with
an initial ceremonial voyage from Hawai’i to Taputapuatea
and Tahiti in 2021.
NIA TERO - THRIVING PEOPLES. THRIVING PLACES.
