What do we mean by a social change agency?

Social change is very important to us. We focus on Behaviour change communication (BCC), a strategic and integrated communication process involving a mix of advocacy and social mobilisation to influence and sustain changes in social norms, attitude, values, knowledge and behaviours across different levels in society such as the individual, household, community and national levels.

Key to this approach is looking at how individuals change the way they act. We use the Knowledge Attitude and Practices (KAP) framework - which is the idea that in order for people to change their behaviour they must acquire knowledge, generate or change their attitudes/beliefs, and then form new practices/behaviour.

While technical expertise is in strategic communications, and we do not have any technical specialisation in the areas where we work, we have a strong network of technical experts and CSO partners who do.

The Result :

We take your message and make engaging, relevant communications, that resonates with your target audience and elicits social change.

Why do we use Influencers?

We work with influencers to deliver vital message to the Myanmar public, because they are more likely to accept influencers' views and change their minds/behavior on social issues. This is because these influencers are widely respected and followed by a large part of the Myanmar public and can thus reach these people more easily then convential marketing campaigns.

Taken from: “Communicating for the Future: Briefing papers, Search For Common Ground,” Nov, 2019. [in Myanmar] Television personalities and celebrities are by far the most trusted source of“important information,” and their insight is relied upon significantly more than religious, political, or community leaders. When asked to indicate three sources that you trust the most to learn important information, the top three responses are TV personalities, posts from my favourite Facebook pages, and community based organisations at 25%, 14%, and 9%, respectively. By contrast, political leaders of my state/region, international media, and national level political leaders were listed by 4%, 3%, and 3%, respectively.

Full Paper Available at: http://www.sfcg.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Search-for-Common-Ground Briefing-Papers.pdf

Why do we work in Ethnic Languages?

Why do we work in Ethnic Languages?

"Speak to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. Speak to him in his own language, that goes to his heart."

Nelson Mandela

Given that a key aspect of mental health counselling is the expression of one’s feelings, it is best provided in an individual’s mother tongue. While Burmese is spoken widely across the country, for many it is a secondary language, and therefore, wherever possible we will try to communicate in the language that individuals feel most comfortable with.

Sin Sar Bar has experience with working in different languages and dialects, and we have a wide network of local language networks who, where possible, can help identify community leaders who speak other ethnic languages and dialects, and also assist with the translation of creative resources.

See how we have used ethnic languages in the past here.

Our Services

Communication Services

Event Management
Translation
Public Relations
Talent Recruitment
Press Management

Creative Services

Graphic Design
Illustration
Song Writing
Dance Choreography
Poetry Compositions
Press Videography
Photography
Animation

The Result:

In terms of getting your message out there, we offers a number of potential outputs. We can advise which channels would be best focused, depending on our target audience, your message and your budget tocuruate highly speacialised and focused content. Below are just some of the outputs we have created in the past: