Local actors are promoted as important agents in the humanitarian sector's latest reform efforts. Opinions on the exact meaning and the best means of implementing localisation differ, however. Applying an interface perspective, this paper analyses how the Rohingya response in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, became an arena of contestation, competition, and sometimes convergence among different actors in relation to localisation. It shows how misconceptions and divergent understandings of localisation and the best methods of achieving it were prevalent and hampered the joint endeavours of international and local humanitarian bodies. Although both sides sought common ground, conflicting views, interests, and perceptions of ‘self’ and ‘other’ stood in the way. A lack of trust between international and local organisations intensified divisions. The paper argues, therefore, that the humanitarian sector needs to engage in trust-building between the various entities involved in humanitarian response if localisation is to be realised, including addressing underlying structural and systemic issues of (neo)colonialism, racism, and classism.

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本地化需要信任：孟加拉罗兴亚响应的界面视角

地方行动者被提升为人道主义部门最新改革努力的重要推动者。然而，关于实现本地化的确切含义和最佳方式的意见有所不同。本文运用界面视角，分析了孟加拉科克斯巴扎尔的罗兴亚人的反应如何成为不同参与者在本地化方面的竞争、竞争和有时趋同的舞台。它显示了对本地化以及实现本地化的最佳方法的误解和不同理解是如何普遍存在的，并阻碍了国际和当地人道主义机构的共同努力。尽管双方都在寻求共同点，但相互冲突的观点、利益以及对“自我”和“他人”的看法却成为了阻碍。国际组织和地方组织之间缺乏信任加剧了分歧。