Boston Consulting Group was paid more than $1mn for work with a private US company trying to move food into Gaza by sea, over the same period it began a controversial association with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the Financial Times has learned.
A team from the consulting firm worked with Fogbow, an aid delivery group led by US military veterans, on a Qatar-funded project that aimed to sail humanitarian aid on barges into Gaza from Cyprus, according to people familiar with the work.
Details of the assignment indicate that BCG was willing to ally itself with multiple private sector efforts to provide relief to Gaza outside the traditional UN-led system, an approach aid groups argue risks undermining humanitarian principles by introducing commercial considerations.