Part of the mandate for the NCGD was to establish a data base on women empowerment in Kenya. This assignment involves carrying out a baseline survey to establish the available local and regional economic opportunities for women, and secondly the baseline of women who are able to access these local and regional economic opportunities.

In this assignment, we were to carry out a baseline survey of women in accessing local and regional economic opportunities and to establish a database of local and regional economic opportunities for women.

The scope of this assignment is to undertake research as follows:

• To develop research protocol with complete data collection tools, analytical framework and work plans.
• To identify local and regional economic opportunities for women.
• To conduct a baseline survey on the current status of women in accessing local and regional economic opportunities for women.
• To determine the challenges faced by women in accessing local and regional economic opportunities.
• To document selected case studies of women who have been able to access local and regional economic opportunities.
• To recommend on how to improve accessibility of local and regional economic opportunities for women.
• To prepare a baseline survey report on the current status of women in accessing local and regional opportunities for women.