Forget about barriers, focus on the opportunities – and they are abundant – the most significant being the opportunities for communities through localisation. Keep pressuring the international and multi-lateral agencies to recognise the local institutional capacity, and convince them that it needs strengthening with their support.

Please see The Lowy Institute’s Interpreter series – Pacific development: The essential local ingredient for sustainability – https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/pacific-development-essential-local-ingredient-sustainability