Most of YLIA's communication strategies are still on the drawing board, awaiting decisions on major grants. When funded, the group plans to draw on both information and communication technologies (ICTs) and face-to-face training to build the capacity of young leaders for community-level action, and advocacy around issues of democracy and governance. At the core of the group's communication strategy is a recognition of young people as agents of change and stakeholders in governance and leadership, with capacities (such as education, energy, maturity, and responsibility) that can lead to effective social change.

Specifically, YLIA, when fully funded, will offer ethical leadership training tools and publish a calendar of trainings to be delivered by YLIA trainers. Trainings - which may be offered at venues such as international conferences where young leaders and leaders-to-be are already collected - will focus on planning, decision-making, teamwork, motivation, conflict resolution, communications, and other leadership skills. To assist with this process, YLIA will develop a training syllabus on good governance and public sector reform. The YLIA also intends to develop and deliver programmes on integrity and leadership suitable for primary and secondary schools.

A Public Sector Interns Program is also planned. It would involve on-the-job training aimed at giving young people practical experience in the management of public sector reforms through internships and other activities that promote young people's engagement in governance.

Youth, Democracy & Governance.

YLIA is motivated by the belief that failures of governance, leadership, and integrity are powerful causes of injustice and poverty in the world. Organisers say that these failures disempower citizens, undermine the rule of law, lead to violations of human rights, distort markets, and allow organised crime, terrorism and other threats to human security to persist. Young people are harmed most by these failures, organisers believe, in the sense that their futures are endangered because the quality of their education, their prospects for employment, and their chances to live and bring up families in productive, caring, and secure communities become more limited. Also, the failures can drive young people into violence and wars not of their own making.

Given the stake that YLIA says young people have in these issues, they note that international organisations and conferences have over time increasingly acknowledged the need to boost the involvement of young people in efforts to eliminate corruption and to promote good governance. For example, in 1985 the UN's International Youth Year (IYY) called on all countries to help young men and women meet their full potential as instruments for positive change. In addition, The World Programme of Action for Youth 2000 and Beyond (WPAY), adopted in 1995, invited the full and effective participation of young people in decision-making on issues such as corruption, leadership, and good governance. YLIA claims that, "Despite these efforts and declarations, however, programs to increase the impact of young people on these issues have made little real progress....Not content with more pronouncements and promises, a group of determined young people at the World Ethics Forum in Oxford, UK launched the Young Leaders Integrity Alliance at the close of the Forum. YLIA's purpose is to bring the world’s young people to the policy-making table, utilizing their energies, ideals and creativity to help build an equitable, sustainable and peaceful world."