Animated Videos

Whiteboard animations are an excellent way to simplify complex issues or summarize lengthy reports in an engaging, easy-to-understand format for a broad audience.

At Sivin, we’ve worked with organizations like Crop Trust, UNICEF, Samuel Hall, Includovate, ILRI, CIFOR, CIAT, University of Salzburg, University of Maastricht, and the CCAFS program to create short, visually captivating whiteboard animations that effectively communicate key messages and ideas.

Hybrid videos: Seeds for Resilience, Ethiopia, Zambia, Ghana and Nigeria (Crop Trust)

Together with Crop Trust, we developed a series of hybrid videos in collaboration with the national genebanks of four countries. We started with a workshop on participatory video and scriptwriting, where participants learned the basics of video production.

From there, we supported the genebanks in crafting their own scripts and storyboards, deciding which elements would be captured as real footage and which would be brought to life through animation. For the real footage, we guided, analyzed, and evaluated the materials they provided. The animated segments were entirely created by us, including the development of unique lead characters for each country.

The voiceovers were recorded by the genebanks, with our support and brief training. Finally, we handled the overall editing, ensuring a cohesive and engaging final product.

In partnership with Samuel Hall Consultancies, we developed the script, narrative, and animated video for UNICEF Pakistan’s Early Childhood Education program. We also coordinated the collaboration with an external voice actor to bring the project to life.

UNICEF Pakistan on Early Childhood Education

UNICEF Thailand and East Asia

We created a series of 11 videos for the Monitoring and Evaluation framework of UNICEF EAPRO, which were then translated into English, Vietnamese, Thai, Lao, Mongolian, Bahasa Indonesia, Tetum (Timor-Leste), Mandarin, Malay (Malaysia), Burmese (Myanmar), and Khmer (Cambodia). Our responsibilities included script and storyboard writing, creating the animated video series, collaborating with external voice actors, adding subtitles, and overseeing the translation into other languages with the help of externally contracted specialists.

The videos were designed to emphasize that evaluation is a crucial tool for UNICEF, helping measure the impact of our work for children. Evaluation strengthens programs through accountability and learning, and this process of continuous improvement is vital. To support this, UNICEF EAPRO developed the evaluation learning series, featuring short videos covering evaluation basics, evaluation management, and national evaluation capacity development

We were tasked with creating a short campaign video for #IncludovateRaisesTheBar, a campaign designed to support three research papers by four researchers, helping them share their findings with a broader audience. We handled the scriptwriting, animated video creation, and editing for the project.

Includovate: Decolonizing Research)

UNICEF Thailand 2017-2021 Strategic positioning and partnership evaluation explained

We were asked to create an animated video to visualize the program evaluation report and explain the strategic positioning and partnership evaluation of UNICEF Thailand. We took charge of script and storyboard writing, creating the animated video, editing, and collaborating with an external voice actor. The video was also produced in Thai to ensure accessibility for the local audience.

We were asked to create an animated video to visualize the PIN program evaluation of UNICEF Lao PDR. We took charge of script and storyboard writing, creating the animated video, editing, and collaborating with an external voice actor. The video was also produced in Lao to ensure accessibility for the local audience.

UNICEF Thailand 2017-2021 Strategic positioning and partnership evaluation explained

Micro, Small and Medium Entreprises Day 2021 (Includovate)

We created a brief animated video for Includovate, to commemorate Micro, Small and Medium enterprises Day in 2021 to highlight the importance and strong contribution of MSMEs to communities and economies.

We created a series of 9 animated videos for CCAFS, based on the research report which highlights 9 lessons for getting CSA practices to more people. The lessons learned were compiled through the project, ‘Increasing Food Security and Farming System Resilience in East Africa through Wide-Scale Adoption of Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices’ in Uganda and Tanzania.

Climate Smart Agriculture, 9 modules (CCAFS)

The mNutrition initiative content development stream (ILRI)

We got asked by ILRI to create a whiteboard animated movie to give a quick introduction to the mNutrition Initiative which is bringing safe, factual and targeted mobile advisory messages on health and agriculture to over 3 million people in 12 African and Asian countries.

We were asked to create a simple animated movie for the GeoCitizen project, in collaboration with the University of Salzburg and CIAT.