Dhaka, Sept. 25 -- Bangladeshi civil society organisations (CSOs) on Thursday urged the international community to adopt a low-cost, locally-led approach in the Rohingya response as the crisis enters its eighth year amid a worsening funding shortfall.

The call came at a press conference organised by COAST Foundation and Cox's Bazar CSO-NGO Forum in Dhaka on Thursday, ahead of the UN Rohingya Conference scheduled for September 30 in New York.

Bangladesh is currently sheltering over 1.15 million Rohingya refugees who fled genocide in Myanmar.

As of September, only 38 per cent of this year's funding requirements have been met, worsened by cuts in U.S. support.

To bridge the gap, the government increased its contribution by 263 per cent c...