Case Studies & Success Stories
These project patterns show how NM Research structures assignments around funder expectations, field realities, and decision-ready outputs.
The research question required careful identification of gendered credit access effects in Kenya.
Quasi-experimental identification, descriptive financial inclusion analysis, and policy-facing synthesis.
The ongoing work is being prepared as a policy-facing research output for institutional and academic audiences.
A county-facing institution required evidence on local revenue performance and expenditure bottlenecks.
Administrative data review, stakeholder interviews, fiscal trend analysis, and executive synthesis.
Decision makers gained a practical roadmap for strengthening revenue administration and prioritising service delivery.
Context tags indicate reporting alignment or funder familiarity; they do not imply donor endorsement.
A development partner needed a defensible baseline, theory of change, and M&E framework before implementation.
Theory of change review, sample architecture, instrument design, enumerator protocols, and QA dashboards.
The client received a donor-ready baseline package with measurable indicators, QA controls, and a clear compliance trail.
Context tags indicate reporting alignment or funder familiarity; they do not imply donor endorsement.
Somalia's government institutions required an evidence-based assessment of disaster risk management capacity and institutional readiness to support World Bank and Norad programming on disaster preparedness and climate resilience.
Stakeholder interview programme across relevant government agencies, institutional capacity scoring using structured frameworks, DRM legislation gap analysis, and synthesis into a structured advisory report.
Delivered a DRM capacity assessment report that informed World Bank and Norad programming decisions on disaster preparedness, institutional strengthening, and climate resilience investment in Somalia.
Context tags indicate reporting alignment or funder familiarity; they do not imply donor endorsement.
Somaliland's customs administration required structured support to modernise revenue collection systems, close procedural gaps, and build institutional capacity aligned with World Bank governance programming.
Customs revenue benchmarking, procedural gap mapping against regional standards, stakeholder capacity interviews, and synthesis of findings into a structured advisory note with actionable reform recommendations.
Delivered a capacity building programme with practical recommendations for customs revenue improvement and administrative reform, directly supporting World Bank and Norad governance programming in Somaliland.
