Strengthening the capacity of young people on managing debates 2015-2016
The British Council and MASAR invite trainers and instructors from institutions and civil society organizations in Lebanon who wish to join the Young Arab Voices programme as core trainers to submit their applications by 19 August 2015.
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.
Since its launch in 2011, the Young Arab Voices programme 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 establishes 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
In Lebanon, the project started in July 2015 in partnership with MASAR, which aims to promote the culture of debate and dialogue among Lebanese youth about arising issues from within the national youth policy, that was endorsed by the Lebanese Council of Ministers in 2012, which includes recommendations in five sectors: demographics and immigration, culture and education, social integration and political participation, employment and economic participation, and health.
The project activities in Lebanon will be:
- Training of Core Trainers on the foundations of debate, adjudication and evaluation that will be held at the end of the month of August in Amman, Jordan.
- Organizing 2 sessions of training local trainers from five universities, ten youth organizations, and the Lebanese National Commission for UNESCO
- Establishing debate clubs in each of the participating institutions.
- Organizing 15 cascade trainings delivered by local trainers to train young men and women on the foundations and rules of debate.
- Organizing restricted debates and public debates in each of the participating institutions.
- Organizing a national competition (Lebanon Boxing Days), hosted by the American University of Beirut.
- Possibility of participation in regional and international debates.
The role of core trainers in the project
The core trainers play an essential role in stimulating and assisting and training local trainers in addition to following-up their performance and the debate club and debaters, and to provide expertise support when needed.
Competencies required of the core trainers
- Experience in debate training
- Experience in training civil society organizations
- Experience monitoring and evaluation necessary to evaluate the performance of local trainers and evaluation of debates
- Ability to work with and accept individuals with diversified ideas
- Have a sense of commitment and motivation to work with others to bring about change
Terms of Participation
- Submit a biography highlighting skills and experience in related field
- Attend the training of trainers in Amman (August 31 to September 2,2015)
- Train local trainers over three days in Beirut (before the end of September 2015)
- Evaluate the performance of a number of local trainers and debaters (between October 2015 and April 2016)
- Participate in the judging panel during the national competition (April 2016)
To participate, please download the application form found at the bottom of this page.
Please complete the application form and send it, no later than August 19, 2015 at 4 pm Beirut time with your biography to the following email address: society1@lb.britishcouncil.org