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Draft Hawaii Statewide Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS)
The Draft Hawaii Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) is a five‐year economic development plan for Hawaii, active for the period of 2022‐2026. Driven by the need to improve resilience of the state’s economy and lay a foundation for future success, this plan follows the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s CEDS Guidelines for a strategy‐driven, regionally owned plan designed to build capacity and guide the economic prosperity and resiliency of an area (see Figure 1). This Drafted 2022‐2026 CEDS plan takes the place of the Hawaii 2016‐2021 CEDS plan which was extended into 2022 until the final publication of this 2022‐2026 plan.
The 2022 CEDS Update is currently in progress and available for public comment. Please view the Draft 2022 Statewide Hawai’i CEDS and submit comments to hi.ceds2022@gmail.com by September 30th, 2022.
