About Us

We bridge rigorous academic methods and actionable development practice.

NM Research and Advisory is a data-driven policy, market, and social research firm based in Kenya. We provide the robust data, compliance frameworks, and strategic insights institutions need to drive sustainable impact and secure funding.

Our work combines impact evaluation, field operations, econometrics, public finance, and donor reporting into one practical advisory model.

Benard Kipyegon

Principal Economist & Lead Statistician

Econometrician and institutional advisor specialising in causal identification, financial inclusion, digital financial services, public procurement policy, and development evaluation.

Leonard Ngetich

Co-founder, Head of Field Operations/M&E Lead

Leads field delivery, monitoring and evaluation, enumerator systems, and operational compliance.

Kirui Kiprono Michael

Head of Consulting and Advisory Unit

Leads consulting engagements, institutional advisory scoping, and practical delivery of research-to-strategy assignments.

Data protection & ethics

Trustworthy evidence requires trustworthy process.

NM Research designs assignments with privacy, consent, secure storage, and appropriate handling of personal or sensitive field data in mind, including Kenya Data Protection Act and GDPR-aware practices where applicable.

Impact evaluation using RCTs and quasi-experimental designs

Advanced econometric modeling and causal identification

Survey design, sampling, CAPI deployment, and field QA

Data protection, research ethics, and donor-compliant documentation

Interactive dashboards, tables, charts, and map-based reporting

Principal Research Credentials

Academic rigour translated into advisory value.

Benard Kipyegon’s peer-reviewed academic research directly anchors the firm’s analytical standards. Published work in international journals underpins three advisory specialisations. ORCID: 0000-0001-9256-0002

Data-Driven Financial Insights

Peer-reviewed research on enterprise capital structure, SME financial constraints, and liquidity dynamics in East Africa.

International Journal of Economics and Finance · DOI

Client organisations receive rigorous quantitative financial analysis grounded in academic-grade methods and causal identification — not advisory intuition. Studies are designed to withstand peer-review standards.

Policy & Regulatory Advisory

Frontier research on procurement policy, government regulatory frameworks, and their development economics effects — published in one of the leading peer-reviewed development economics journals.

Journal of Development Economics · DOI

Policy briefs, institutional diagnostics, and regulatory impact assessments are built on the same analytical standards as frontier academic research: causal identification, not correlation.

Digital Finance Specialization

Research on mobile money adoption, digital financial services infrastructure, and financial inclusion outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Digital strategy, DFS product assessment, and mobile money regulatory advisory are informed by primary research on adoption barriers, gender gaps, and infrastructure constraints across East and Horn of Africa.

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