An Agenda for a Dignified and Sustainable Rohingya Refugee Response in Bangladesh b. The Strategic Executive Group and Inter-Sector Coordination Group should lead the development of a shared localisation strategy. The Strategic Executive Group and Inter-Sector Coordination Group should aim at achieving solidarity among diverse stakeholders and improving protection outcomes for affected communities with enhanced and accountable local participation and leadership through an inclusive localisation strategy, building on the Localisation Roadmap that has been developed. At the level of humanitarian coordination, it should translate into the inclusion of diverse humanitarian stakeholders, including affected communities and international, national, and local humanitarian actors, by mainstreaming their participation in sectors and other decisionmaking bodies. To address language barriers, investments should be made in consistent, quality and ethical translation and interpretation support in Bangla and Rohingya languages. c. The NGO community (including all international, national, and local agencies), should prioritise complementary and coordinated NGO action to achieve the best humanitarian outcomes for affected communities. The starting point for localisation in the Rohingya refugee response is understanding the needs of stateless Rohingya refugees and host communities, and then, developing local protection capacity to meet those needs.293 Capacity cannot be understood outside of context, and it requires specific knowledge, experience, relationships, ways of working, and social and cultural understanding, in addition to technical expertise.294 In the context of the Rohingya refugee response, the NGO community should reflect and take steps to collaborate and coordinate in order to effectively and sustainably deliver humanitarian support by: ➢ ➢ Collectively contribute to a broad-based mapping and stakeholder analysis and development of a shared referrals guide, led by SEG/ISCG, to build trust and enhance common understanding of complementary capacities in the response. (See Recommendation 1 on Humanitarian Coordination). Promoting NGO leadership and engagement in the Rohingya refugee response by strengthening existing NGO coordination mechanism/s by building closer linkages between international, national and local NGO networks, aimed at promoting the humanitarian agenda over individual or organisational interests. 293 Brian Barbour et.al, supra n. 5. Humanitarian twinning programmes currently in place in other humanitarian settings like Afghanistan and Somalia along with consortium approaches, aimed at increasing the participation of national actors in the response and build their capacity to access more funding and enhance capacity-sharing between international and national NGOs, can also be applied in the Rohingya response to nurture an inclusive and complementary response. See, ACBAR, Humanitarian Twinning Program, available at http://www.acbar.org/page/7.jsp?title=Humanitarian-Twinning-Program; and Somalia NGO Consortium, Twinning Program, available at http://www.somaliangoconsortium.org/services/twinning-program/ 294 Act for Peace / May 2021 69