This briefing paper looks at what problem(s) ‘nexus approaches’ are supposed to address. It then explains how a ‘nexus approach’ or, as some prefer, ‘resilience programming’, is fundamentally reliant on local actors’ agency, and therefore directly linked to the active inclusion and support for local and national actors that the ‘localisation/national ownership/local capacities for peace’ commitments imply. It provides an overview of identified good nexus- or resilience programming practices, which are very similar to those supporting ‘localisation’. It acknowledges multiple good examples around the world, but also lists key factors that make the international aid system still unfit to enable this more systematically. Access the brief here.