METIP documents
 | Recruiting for Steering Committee member > Access the vacancy description METIP is looking for someone with practical knowledge on the issue of human trafficking—including knowledge from lived experience and/or from your work with grassroots communities—to help steer our work to meet the priorities of survivors and people most affected by human trafficking. The deadline for submitting an application is 9th December 2022. |
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Lessons learned from the 2022 METIP quarterly meeting > Access the lessons learned document On the 12th of July 2022, the METIP community gathered once again for one of our quarterly meetings, to discuss a cutting-edge topic which is currently marking its way into discussions on anti trafficking research and monitoring: how to achieve equitable and inclusive monitoring, evaluation, and research. This meeting built upon the presentations and insights gathered during the METIP 2022 Annual Conference, which took place in February and resulted in our Call to Action on equitable and inclusive monitoring, evaluation, and research in the anti-trafficking movement. Attendees were split into four groups to discuss the second, fourth, fifth, and sixth points in the Call to Action. We have extracted four main lessons from this event, which you can find in the document attached. These relate to four main topics: ways of capturing missing voices in anti trafficking programming and research, good practices of collaborating with #survivors, how to use participatory methods involving survivors and community members, and how to create a more equitable distribution of research #grants in the anti trafficking sector. |
 | Summary from the 2022 Annual Conference: A Call to Action The 2022 METIP Annual Conference was held virtually on the 15th and 17th of February 2022. The event brought together professionals from across the anti-trafficking community, including experts with lived experiences of human trafficking victimisation, to reflect on current gaps and identify promising approaches to make marginalised voices more embedded into monitoring, evaluation, and research. Through a series of presentations, panel discussions and Q&A sessions, the conference sought to build consensus on future directions for the field, and to encourage collaboration, cross-pollination between different actors, and sharing of expertise, especially by experts with lived experience and members from at-risk communities. This Call to Action summarises the main findings that came out of those discussions and calls on participants to reflect on inclusivity within their organisational policies, procedures, research design, data collection and monitoring methods. |
The METIP community of practice was founded around 2013 in Washington DC. A small group of monitoring and evaluating staff from NGOs and consultancies met monthly to share their knowledge, challenges and successes with measuring anti-trafficking interventions in the United States and around the world.
The Freedom Fund currently acts as the Secretariat for this voluntary membership group, taking the reins from International Justice Mission who served as the Chair during 2017 – 2020 and Free the Slave during 2013 – 2017. Over the past 7 years, the METIP community has grown from a small group of M&E staff to a global network that includes iNGOs, academic institutions, and national and international governmental agencies.