Empowering women micro-entrepreneurs can have significant economic and social impacts, from increasing incomes to creating jobs to strengthening household resiliency. Mobile phones can be a source of economic and social empowerment by providing access to information, services and resources that many women would not be able to access easily otherwise. 

This report focuses on women micro-entrepreneurs’ use of mobile phones for business in Kenya, focusing on the drivers, barriers and opportunities.

It is based on face-to-face quantitative and qualitative research with both male and female micro-entrepreneurs in Kenya, including those who currently use mobile phones to support their business and those who do not. The report showing data from all countries can be found here.