PIMA’s Strategic Plan

“Working together, preserving, celebrating and nurturing the heritage of the peoples of the Pacific Islands”

PIMA’s Executive Board developed their strategic plan for the organisation for 1999-2003. The Board is currently refreshing the plan to include priorities and activities for the years leading up to 2010. The document will be available for review soon. Check back with this page regularly for updates.

PIMA’S Vision

“Working together, preserving, celebrating and nurturing the heritage of the peoples of the Pacific Islands”

PIMA’S Mission

PIMA is a regional, multilingual, non-profit organisation that:

• Assists Pacific museums, cultural centres and peoples to preserve Pacific Island heritage,
• Develops community participation in heritage management,
• Brings together museums and cultural centres in Pacific Islands to develop their capacity to identify, research, manage, interpret and nurture cultural and natural heritage,
• Advocates the development of regional cultural resource management policies and practices, facilitates training, and provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and skills,
• Provides and encourages regional and global linkages which support Pacific islands heritage preservation.

PIMA’S Objectives

• To represent the interests and concerns of museums and cultural centres in the region,
• To develop communication links which bring together professionals and institutions in support of Pacific Islands Heritage Management,
• To promote community involvement in the vision of PIMA through consultation, education and access activities,
• To enhance human resources through education and training.
• To develop and promote ethics and standards,
• To advice and work with governments and other agencies in matters of heritage management and policy,
• To facilitate the protection and restitution of tangible and intangible cultural property,
• To market PIMA.

PIMA’S Strategies

a)    Marketing, Co-ordination and Communication

• Fund raising
• Publicity/publications dissemination
• Partnerships – internal and external
• Administration and reporting

b)    Develop a regional Code of Ethics for Pacific Island Heritage management

• Pacific conservation ethic, new concept of cultural institution in the context of living cultures

c)    Education

• Public formal system (schools), traditional policy makers and exhibits

d)     Training

• Technical training for staff, field workers and community members

e)     Collections and Sites

• Inventories, repatriation, documentation, collections and site management databases, conservation, research and access
• To build from the network of previous PIMA conservation course graduates, developing a number of museum centres of knowledge and skills, capable of acting as regional resource centres.