Procurement Summary
Country: Kenya
Summary: Developing the Nairobi Securities Exchange Gender Equality Index
Deadline: 23 Apr 2026
Posting Date: 09 Apr 2026
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 139254705
Document Ref. No.: 0002021612
Competition: ICB
Financier: World Bank (WB)
Purchaser Ownership: Public
Tender Value: Refer Document
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The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE), in partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), seeks to develop a comprehensive Gender Equality Index for NSE-listed companies. This initiative is anchored in both institutions' commitment to Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality and forms part of IFC's broader Women's Economic Inclusion Program in Kenya. Kenya's corporate leadership landscape reflects meaningful but insufficient progress on gender diversity. Women occupy 27.7% of board seats and 39% of C-suite positions among NSE-listed companies, falling short of the one-third board representation target set for 2027. Gender metrics remain inconsistently tracked, and public reporting on pay equity, promotion rates, and attrition disaggregated by gender is limited across the market. There is a clear need for a standardized, market-based mechanism that creates transparency, drives accountability, and incentivizes private sector action on gender equality. The NSE Gender Equality Index will serve as that mechanism a financial index that evaluates, benchmarks, and monitors gender diversity and inclusion among NSE-listed companies, and that positions Kenya's capital markets as a credible destination for gender-lens and ESG-aligned investment.
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Gender-Index-Assignment-TOR.docx