C. PEAR Ecosystem Goals, Strategies, & Outcomes

The PEAR goals and overall strategies below guide the delivery of state goods, services, policies, and practices so all Washingtonians can participate, prosper, and achieve their full potential. The Office of Equity will partner with state agencies and communities to create an annual report to the Governor and Legislature. The report will include agency strengths and accomplishments made on PEAR expectations and the effectiveness of agency programs and services on reducing disparities, including the agency’s action plan to address areas for continued improvement and a timeline for the action plan.

Overall PEAR Ecosystem Goals

Reduce disparities in public contracting, public education, public employment, and 
public services. –Executive Order 22-02

Improve outcomes that benefit all tribes, communities, and employees of Washington’s 
PEAR ecosystem. –Executive Order 22-04

Overall PEAR Ecosystem Strategies

1.Implement a pro-equity, anti-racism framework in partnership with relevant communities and organizations

Partner with others to intentionally name and address implicit and explicit bias and all levels of racism, particularly against people who are seen and treated as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color.

2. Embrace continuous learning, growing, and pivoting

Build organizational capacity and infrastructure to continuously learn, improve, and make adjustments to sustain meaningful policy and systems change that achieves equitable policies, practices, and outcomes.

3. Consistently assess your equity impact

Understand and acknowledge your agency’s equity impact to inform agency planning, decision-making, and action steps when changing policies, programs, and practices that perpetuate inequities and when developing new policies and programs that perpetuate equity.

4. Make values driven, data informed upstream investments

Identify and target root causes of opportunity gaps and disparities and prioritize the people who have traditionally been excluded to improve outcomes that benefit all.

5. Be transparent, accountable, and operate with urgency

Create and maintain a long-term commitment to change and help others to see the benefit to them for acting immediately. Build public trust and accountability for sustaining equity through values-driven, data-informed decision-making and outcome tracking.

D. PEAR Ecosystem Outcomes

All people in Washington flourish and achieve their full potential, embody pro-equity anti-racism values, and enjoy peace, prosperity, and possibility now and for generations to come.