We consider a nonlinear differential inclusion defined by a set-valued map with nonconvex values and we prove that the reachable set of a certain variational inclusion is a derived cone in the sense of Hestenes to the reachable set of the initial differential inclusion. In order to obtain the continuity property in the definition of a derived cone we use a continuous version of Filippov's theorem for solutions of our differential inclusion. As an application, in finite dimensional spaces, we obtain a sufficient condition for local controllability along a reference trajectory.