PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT

World Mayor 2025

​December 2024: The 2025 World Mayor Prize is dedicated to fighting poverty, particularly poverty among women and children. Poverty is an affront to humanity and human rights. It prevents hundreds of millions of people from realising their full potential. Poverty is about a lack of food, housing, health care, education, prospects, safety, resources, dignity, and, indeed, love.

 

According to the United Nations, more than 700 million people around the world live in extreme poverty. Some ten per cent of women globally are trapped in a cycle of extreme poverty. UNICEF estimates that roughly one billion children are affected by periods of poverty in their childhood – with over 300 million of them growing up in extreme poverty.

 

Since the inception of the World Mayor Project in 2004, we have featured many mayors who have made poverty relief one of their main aims in office. We now wish to hear from many more.

 

We are seeking mayors from large cities, towns and villages who have put in place measures in support of the least well-off in their communities. We are looking for initiatives that can be applied by other towns. The initiatives may be small-scale or have the potential to provide poverty relief beyond the mayors’ communities.

 

The 2025 World Mayor Project will be conducted via the World Mayor and Women Mayors platforms. Full details will be released in January 2025. In the meantime, please email us with any questions or, indeed, if you already wish to nominate a mayor.

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For your information, the World Mayor Project has been organised by the City Mayors Foundation since 2004. City Mayors' founding fellows are Tann vom Hove and the late Ruth Maguire.

 

Thank you.

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World Mayor 2025: Preliminary announcement | Definitions of poverty | Alcalde del Mundo en español | Contact |​​

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The World Mayor Project since 2004: About World Mayor | 20-year history | Since 2004, four women mayors have won the World Mayor Prize | The World Mayor sculpture |

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Contact: Email

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On other pages: About Women Mayors | Code of Ethics for mayors | Comments & Opinions |

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