The Research and Policy Agenda was produced at the International Seminar on Gender, Urbanization and Environment held in Nairobi in 1994. It’s purpose was to discuss issues, theories and methods and put the priorities of poor women at the community level on the the research agenda in order to influence policy. The proceedings covering fifty papers from thirty countries were presented at the seminar. Common themes, such as, issues of land and resources; gender roles in relation to work and migration were identified as priorities, giving the crucial findings of the seminar.