Transformation is not a theory — it is practice, shared, and sustained together.
Services
At Metis Insights, we translate values into practice. Our work bridges the worlds of feminist leadership, humanitarian design, ethical AI, and evidence-based advocacy, helping organisations turn insight into action and strategies into systems of care and accountability.
We collaborate with partners across sectors to co-create solutions that are contextually grounded, ethically sound, and impact-driven. Whether through strategic advisory, capacity development, participatory research, or responsible technology design, we work to ensure that justice, inclusion, and transparency guide every step of the process.
Explore our core areas of expertise below — from organisational transformation to the frontiers of ethical AI:
Advocacy & Representation
Production of policy briefs, advocacy reports, and knowledge products
International advocacy at UN mechanisms, treaty bodies, and global policy forums
Capacity strenghening & Training
Tailor-made trainings on:
Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA)
Rights-Based Approaches (RBA)
Protection mainstreaming & safeguarding
Education in Emergencies (INEE standards)
Applied Research & Evaluation
Advisory & Strategy
Design and delivery of evaluations, baseline studies, and impact assessments
Use of participatory methodologies (Outcome Harvesting, Theory of Change, mixed methods)
Strategic planning, donor engagement, and rights-based programme design
Facilitation of organizational restructuring, identity reflection, and partnership building
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.
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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