{"id":248289,"date":"2025-07-08T15:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T15:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/248289\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T15:14:14","slug":"save-the-children-suspends-bcg-partnership-over-gaza-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/248289\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Children suspends BCG partnership over Gaza work"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Save the Children has halted a decades-long partnership with BCG over its work on Gaza, after the consultancy helped develop a contentious aid scheme and modelled the costs of relocating Palestinians out of the strip.<\/p>\n

Save the Children International chief executive Inger Ashing wrote to staff on Monday to say the charity was \u201cappalled and deeply disturbed\u201d by the Financial Times\u2019 coverage of BCG\u2019s work in Gaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She told staff that Save the Children had \u201csuspended all ongoing work\u201d with BCG pending an external investigation into its processes.<\/p>\n

The UK-based charity told the FT it suspended its partnership with BCG on June 13, shortly after the consultancy first acknowledged the Gaza-related project and said it had halted the work.<\/p>\n

The FT detailed in recent days how BCG staff helped model the costs<\/a> of relocating Palestinians from Gaza and had been more involved with the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation than it had publicly acknowledged.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BCG has maintained that two partners misled senior executives to carry out \u201cunauthorised work\u201d, and that it has since stopped the work and dismissed the partners.<\/p>\n

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Ashing said in her message to Save the Children staff that the NGO \u201cmoved quickly to meet with their leadership to demand an explanation when the news regarding their involvement in designing the GHF broke\u201d. BCG\u2019s involvement was first reported by the Washington Post in June.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing that, we suspended all ongoing work with BCG pending the outcome of their external investigation,\u201d Ashing said. She added that Save the Children was \u201cawaiting a formal response\u201d after following up with BCG at the weekend.<\/p>\n

BCG has been a \u201cproud partner\u201d of Save the Children since 2006, according to a page on the consultancy firm\u2019s website, which details a \u201crange of strategic, operational, and organisational issues\u201d that it has worked on \u201cside by side\u201d with the charity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Its work with Save the Children has included pro bono and \u201clow-bono\u201d \u2014 or significantly discounted \u2014 support, according to Ashing\u2019s memo.<\/p>\n

BCG says it serves on multiple Save the Children boards globally and seconds its consultants to the charity, as well as helping with \u201cstrategic, operational, and organisational issues\u201d and specific programmes, including with refugee children.<\/p>\n

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The consultancy said: \u201cBCG values our long-standing relationship with Save the Children and hope to continue supporting their valuable work in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe deeply regret the actions of the two former partners, who were swiftly exited from the firm. BCG remains committed to taking all necessary steps to strengthen our safeguards to ensure that this never happens again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Save the Children said the charity \u201chad repeatedly warned publicly that any militarised aid distribution system, such as that set up by the GHF, would carry catastrophic consequences\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe continue to advocate for aid delivery in Gaza that is guided by humanitarian principles\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009free from political interference. Save the Children remains operational in Gaza, as we have been for decades, prepared to deliver life-saving support.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Stephen Foley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-248289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}