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Mālama ʻāina · To care for the land

The care of each moku, carried by its stewards.

He aliʻi ka ʻāina, he kauwā ke kanaka — the land is chief, and the people its stewards. Each of Hawaiʻi's 33 moku is a living district of lands, waters, and community, and its care is carried by stewards: the cultural and land organizations who mālama ʻāina today, and the future leaders being trained to coordinate that work as a living system. Mokunet is in service to them — it holds each district's work on one shared, trusted map, so what is done for a moku is seen, counted, and built upon.

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Who stewards a moku

Stewardship is not a role the network assigns — it is work already being carried, and work being prepared for.

Cultural and land organizations, today

The practitioners, farmers, and ʻāina-based organizations who already care for their districts carry the deepest knowledge of them. The network's part is a supporting one: to hold their work on the shared map, connect it to programs and partners, and make sure it is counted on the district's own terms.

Stewards in training, through Hui Koʻe ʻĀina

The next generation of stewards is being trained to coordinate land-specific activities across a moku — from field observation to program planning. Those training protocols are carried by Hui Koʻe ʻĀina, the network's research and training partner. Meet the partners.

Seven pillars of district stewardship

In each moku, stewards look after the parts of community life that matter most. Each pillar lines up with a UN Sustainable Development Goal — seven of the nine goals the network's programs align to — tying local care to global commitments.

Food SystemsWater ResourcesEnergyEconomic DevelopmentSustainable CommunitiesClimate ActionLand Ecosystems
How the pillars align to the SDGs — and where the numbers come from

From vision to impact

Every project moves through four steps, and each step is recorded — so a steward can always see what was planned and what was done. Measuring impact against island baselines is being built; the record each project leaves is what will make that measurement trustworthy.

1
Goal & Scope
Stewards define what matters for their district and community.
2
Inventory
Producers, researchers, and community groups contribute local data.
3
Impact Assessment
Environmental and social impacts measured against island baselines.
4
Interpretation
Stewards review results in the context of their district and SDG goals.

Grounded in standards the world trusts

Mokunet is built on open standards — community management, lifecycle assessment, records governance, and supply-chain traceability — with the UN Sustainable Development Goals as the gateway: nine goals connect local work in each moku to global targets, and to Hawaiʻi's own 2050 Sustainability Plan and Aloha+ Challenge. See the standards, and what each one does.
You see your moku and your kuleana. Planners, hub managers, facilities crews, and land stewards each find the projects, programs, and data that fit their work — not everyone else's noise.