This paper is devoted to the development of a local degree for multi-valued vector
fields of the form $f - F$ . Here, $f$ is a single-valued,
proper, nonlinear, Fredholm, $C^1$ -mapping
of index zero and $F$ is a multi-valued upper semicontinuous, admissible, compact
mapping with compact images. The mappings $f$ and $F$ are acting from a subset of a Banach space $E$ into another Banach space $E_1$ . This local degree is used to
investigate the existence of solutions of a certain class of operator
inclusions.