When the Rubber Hits the Road: Local Leadership in the First 100 Days of the Rohingya Crisis Response | Bangla Language Version

Back to results
Pages
11pp
Date published
01 Dec 2017
Publisher
Humanitarian Advisory Group, NIRAPAD
Type
Real-time evaluation
Keywords
Community-led, Local capacity, Forced displacement and migration
Countries
Myanmar
Organisations
Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Humanitarian Advisory Group, Network for Information, Response and Preparedness Activities on Disaster (NIRAPAD)

The international community has committed to a humanitarian system that is locally owned and led. This means a shift of power, resources and decision-making to local and national responders in humanitarian action. But how is this manifested during a humanitarian response of the scale and complexity of the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh? This rapid real-time analysis considers how the global localisation agenda has influenced the current operational response, and prompts questions about what happens when localisation moves from theory to practice.