Displacement is one of the most pervasive global humanitarian challenges of today, driven by conflict, violence, natural disasters, and public health emergencies (UNHCR, 2025), with 62.2 million people internally displaced globally by the end of 2025 (IDMC, 2026), making effective Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) vital in ensuring safety and dignity of affected populations. Displaced populations seek refuge in diverse sites from planned camps, spontaneous settlements, collective centers, evacuation centers, or within host communities, highlighting the critical role of localization in CCCM which promotes the delivery of community-led, context-appropriate solutions that foster sustainable outcomes better than one-size-fits-all approaches. This study focuses on Ethiopia and Myanmar to examine how local actors are enabled and challenged in site management, support the CCCM Cluster's strategy to strengthen localization, and ensure that future site management efforts are more inclusive, drawing on document analysis, Key Informant Interviews (KIIs), and an online survey (OS). Across both countries, the findings reveal a common pattern: local actors already bear substantial operational responsibility in site management, yet their strategic authority remains constrained by structural barriers. Participation often ends at the consultative level, leadership is limited by a constant "decision-making ceiling", capacity strengthening is narrowly technical and insufficiently institutionalized, funding flows rarely support autonomy, and visibility does not consistently translate into influence.