The World Food Programme has launched a “comprehensive review” of its partnership with Boston Consulting Group as a backlash mounts over the US consultancy’s work on a controversial project in Gaza.
The Financial Times reported last week that BCG had modelled the costs of relocating Palestinians from Gaza. It also helped establish the Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, whose role in distributing aid in the enclave has been marred by the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians.
The WFP, which has had a global partnership with BCG since 2003, said it was not aware of the consultancy’s relationship with GHF until it became public.