The System Viability framework helps communities and policymakers realise that there are no simple, quick fixes to complex problems. Instead, in order for a community to guarantee survival in the long term, it needs to balance its aspirations for maintaining traditional identity and adapting towards Western lifestyles and technologies, balance between the flexibility provided by keeping alive a diversity of practices and the efficiency and high returns of focusing on a single successful product or service, balance between focusing on a communitys immediate needs and the long term needs of a range of local, national and international stakeholders. These tensions, checks and balances, also need to be reflected in international policies. Until this is the case, stakeholders at all levels of decision-making, from local communities to international policymakers, will find themselves divided between specific interest groups while lurching from one quick fix, but ultimately ineffective, intervention to another. Extract from COBRA Best Practice report, p.10
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