Transformation is not a theory — it is practice, shared, and sustained together.
Services
Metis Insights provides strategic advisory, research and specialist technical support to organisations working across humanitarian action, international development and social justice.
Our work connects strategy, funding, evidence, organisational capability and accountability—because complex institutional challenges rarely fit neatly into one discipline.
Funding Strategy & Resource Mobilisation
Metis works with leadership and resource-mobilisation teams to build funding strategies that are ambitious, disciplined and organisationally sustainable.
Better funding decisions—not simply more funding.
We examine not only where money can be found, but which funding is strategically valuable, what it costs the organisation to pursue and manage, and how the funding portfolio contributes to long-term resilience.
Our work includes:
Funding and resource-mobilisation strategies
Funding architecture and portfolio reviews
Donor landscape and opportunity mapping
Institutional donor and foundation positioning
Funding concentration and vulnerability analysis
Prospect prioritisation and pipeline development
Donor engagement and partnership strategy
Case-for-support and funding proposition development
Bid/no-bid frameworks and major opportunity strategy
Leadership and fundraising-team advisory
Fundraising systems, KPIs and capability strengthening
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Strategy, Leadership & Organisational Change
We help organisations navigate strategic decisions, organisational transitions and complex multi-stakeholder processes.
Our work includes:
Strategic planning and organisational review
Leadership and governance processes
Organisational restructuring and transition
Partnership and coalition strategy
Senior-level facilitation
Rights-based programme and institutional design
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Responsible AI, Data & Ethical Innovation
Research, Evaluation & Learning
We support organisations to explore and govern AI and data systems responsibly.
Our work brings together human rights, gender and intersectional analysis, organisational governance and practical technology strategy—helping organisations assess not only what technology can do, but whether and how it should be used.
We design rigorous research and evaluation processes that combine evidence, participation and organisational learning.
Our work includes:
Programme and portfolio evaluations
Baseline and endline studies
Theory of Change
Outcome Harvesting
Mixed-methods research
Learning and evidence synthesis
Impact and organisational assessments
Knowledge products and strategic recommendations
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Our projects
Facilitated the EU-CORD Network General Assembly (2025), guiding a strategic dialogue among European faith-based organisations during a period of funding realignment and institutional transition. The process helped member CEOs and senior leaders navigate collective priorities, strengthen collaboration, and identify pathways toward financial sustainability and shared strategic direction.
Facilitated strategic restructuring for the ACT Alliance (2025), guiding a staff-led co-creation process to build an inclusive, horizontal leadership model.
Metis Insights is proud to be a Co-Founder of La Nuestra — a feminist digital platform and living archive that preserves and amplifies women’s testimonies of sexual and gender-based violence.
More than a website, La Nuestra is a space for solidarity and collective action, connecting women through shared experiences and support networks while advancing feminist digital sovereignty.
Through this initiative, Metis Insights contributes to building technology that serves memory, justice, and community power.
Expertise for organisations making difficult decisions
Humanitarian Quality, Gender & Capacity Strengthening
We help organisations translate standards, rights and commitments into everyday practice.
Areas of support include humanitarian quality and accountability, gender in humanitarian action, safeguarding and protection mainstreaming, rights-based approaches and Education in Emergencies.
Support can include organisational diagnostics, training, facilitation, policy review and technical advisory.
METIS is our agentic AI tool designed to bring wisdom, care, and accountability into the heart of data. Unlike conventional AI systems that reproduce bias and reinforce inequalities, Metis is built on feminist, decolonial, and human rights principles — ensuring that technology serves people, not the other way around. By integrating feminist and decolonial methodologies into agentic AI, our system aims to:
Detect and reduce harmful patterns in data collection and management.
Provide organisations with accountable, transparent pathways for evidence use.
Generate gendered and justice-oriented insights that strengthen advocacy, policy, and program design.
Reframe knowledge so it reflects the lived realities of communities rather than reproducing exclusion.
STARTING YOUR BUSINESS: Introduces new entrepreneurs, producers, makers and artisans with small (often informal) businesses to basic business concepts and focuses on the local market. Level 1 is organized into seven chapters, the first five of which focus on business basics—the market and business relationships, production, costing and pricing, promoting your business and sales. The last two chapters explore how to grow your business through business planning, finding new customers and developing new products.
GROWING YOUR BUSINESS: Provides more experienced artisans and larger business owners with the tools to strengthen your business and compete in local, regional and international markets. Level 2 is organized into eight chapters, the first five of which focus on business fundamentals: relationships, production, pricing and costing, marketing and sales. The last three chapters explore how to grow your business: planning for growth, developing new products and finding new customers, including in international markets.
Myanmar Artisan Toolkit
Traglia, F.P. (2019): La capacidad de empoderamiento de la ciudadanía de los ODS: Cómo funciona este proceso de hacerse suyos los ODS en el Sur de Catalunya
This reflective article explores how citizens and civil society in southern Catalonia engage with and internalise the UN 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Drawing on field experience and participatory observation, the publication analyses the empowerment process of active citizenship — from awareness-raising and local advocacy to civic participation and policy influence.Francesca Paola Traglia highlights how empowerment depends on context, access to information, and collective learning, arguing that the success of the SDGs relies on creating spaces where citizens understand their role as agents of transformation.
The piece underscores the need for stronger collaboration between public institutions and civil society, and reflects Metis Insights’ ongoing mission to bridge local action with global justice frameworks.
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Non-Confrontational Human Rights Advocacy: Lessons from Myanmar’s Civil Society Experience
Traglia, F.P. (2018)
In Gomez, J. & Ramcharan, R. (Eds.) National Human Rights Institutions in Southeast Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.
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From Transition to Government Accountability: Opportunities for the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission
Traglia, F.P. (2020)
In Gomez, J. & Ramcharan, R. (Eds.) National Human Rights Institutions in Southeast Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.
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Contact
We’d love to hear from you. Whether you’re exploring collaboration, seeking advisory support, or simply curious about how we integrate ethics, care, and justice into data and design — let’s start a conversation.
Reach out to connect with the Metis Insights team about partnerships, consultancy services, or speaking engagements. Together, we can turn insight into impact.
Metis Insights transformed our approach to community engagement.
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Their expertise in gender justice is truly impactful.
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