Who We Are

KDC was established in 2021 by Kamel Deriche to address the need for the quick deployment of personnel with appropriate skills to emergency and protracted situations. Kamel Deriche has over 35 years’ experience working with the United Nations in wide and diverse settings, across over 30 countries around the world. He brings wide experience in programme planning and delivery, human resource management, and technology and digital communication to help humanitarian organizations throughout the Middle East and North Africa, recruit and strengthen the capacities of local and regional staff.

“We make a Life by what we Give”

Kamel Deriche

Kamel Deriche is the Founder of KDC. After 36 years of beautiful experiences working for the UN in most complex emergency situations over the globe, Kamel decided to continue supporting humanitarian work by giving the opportunity to many unknown talented people to become the new wave of humanitarian actors. A strong operational leader and senior advisor, he is known for his team building approach and timely operational impact in most complex emergencies and crises situations.

Talents to Support the World

KDC identifies and maintains a list of professional candidates with skills and experience of value to humanitarian organizations. These include individuals with specialized competencies including but not limited to: coordination, logistics, communication, human resource management, finance, programme management, legal protection, cash-based assistance, clean water, sanitation, health, education, accommodation, and livelihoods. They are individuals who have also expressed an interest to be immediately deployed to humanitarian operations in the region.

Remote Monitoring and reporting

Humanitarian programmes are frequently in remote and hard to access areas. To assist in regular monitoring and reporting from these areas, KDC has developed an easy to use digital application that facilitates timely updates of field-based programmes.

Knowledge resources

New staff need to become familiar with the basic foundations of humanitarian programming such as international humanitarian principles, organization, processes and delivery methods, standards of conduct and financial oversight. KDC offers a library of foundational documents available in several languages of benefit to newly recruited humanitarian actors.

Latest Resources

2023 – UK Green Finance Strategy

The strategy paper sets out the UK Government’s policy blueprint and approach to green finance that will be delivered by three government departments, HM Treasury, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and DEFRA. The new strategy is a substantial update on its previous iteration, containing a large number of policy commitments, many of which are new but it also updates and adds further detail about its outstanding initiatives.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – 1992

The UNFCCC entered into force on 21 March 1994. Today, it has near-universal membership. The 198 countries that have ratified the Convention are called Parties to the Convention. Preventing “dangerous” human interference with the climate system is the ultimate aim of the UNFCCC.

SDGs Good Practices

Since the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) were adopted in 2015, many governments, UN entities, international and regional organizations and stakeholders have gained in-depth knowledge and expertise and taken innovative steps towards implementing this ambitious global framework.   Many inspiring breakthroughs and success stories are showing results and impacts all over the world, and several good practices can be replicated and scaled up to address existing gaps and constraints. Bringing this global expertise to scale will be critical to support recovery efforts from the COVID-19 pandemic and to accelerate progress towards the Decade of Action to deliver the SDGs.

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