The ‘Young Arab Voices’ is a regional project, jointly launched by the British Council and the Anna Lindh Foundation, aims at developing skills and opportunities for youth-led debate across the Arab region.
Through consultation and needs assessment, three key needs have been identified for young people in terms of supporting freedom of expression:

to increase young people’s skills for public debate
to provide platforms for youth from diverse backgrounds to meet and exchange views
to provide targeted support for young bloggers in terms of outreach work at the grass-root level, enabling them to bridging the gap between virtual and public space

The Young Arab Voices regional programme , since its launch in 2011, aims at providing opportunities, tools, and capacity building for the involvement of youth in running and managing effective debates for the purpose of enriching the pluralistic democratic dialogue existing in the Arab world.

The programme depends on establishing partnerships with the education sector, as well as the civil society sector; from NGOs, youth groups, culture centres, schools and universities, as well as the concerned ministries in the targeted countries: Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.

The 'Young Arab Voices' regional project is working on creating and facilitating:

1. A programme of youth debates and exchange across targeted countries which will consist of the setting up of debating clubs, to be sustained through the network of trained facilitators, and the mobilization and organization of debating forums involving diverse young people.

2. A regional resource network and a set of training tools for facilitating further debate which will provide a platform of support to debate clubs being developed in the targeted countries, as well as a platform of exchange for facilitators to share good practice and offer peer-to-peer support. The training tools will be produced by adapting existing support materials and training modules in terms of language (Arabic) and content (cultural relevance).