Humanitarian Advisory Group

Promoting excellence in humanitarian action

Humanitarian Advisory Group brings fresh thinking to challenge the status quo of humanitarian aid. As an ethically driven business, we combine humanitarian passion with entrepreneurial agility to think and do things differently.

HAG (n).

From ‘hægtesse’, a wise female orator, a figure generally feared and respected.

From ‘hegge’, a foot in two realities – the world of the village (home) and the wild world beyond.

Humanitarian Advisory Group is an ethically driven business that combines humanitarian passion with entrepreneurial agility and innovation. We are courageous, principled and results-focused thinkers and doers who still believe that humanitarianism is one of the most sacred ‘isms’ in the world.

How we work

Research and reflect
Connect and collaborate
Train and facilitate
Guide and advise

Latest publications

Annual Report 2017-2018

Extractives and Emergencies: the Papua New Guinea Earthquake Response

Localisation: Opportunities and challenges for protection in disaster response

Drawing on our Diversity: Humanitarian Leadership

Latest posts

Australia’s drought: the disaster at our doorstep

Not the ‘best time to start hugging trees’: Incorporating the environment into humanitarian response

Aid work wellbeing: Time to face the elephant in the room

Report Launch: From an ombudsman to a humanitarian passport – how should we be addressing abuse in the international aid sector?

“Conceived over coffee and animated conversation in 2012, HAG began as an experiment – one designed to determine if humanitarian passion could be combined with entrepreneurial agility and innovation.”