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UTILITIES FRONT PAGE About World Mayor City Mayors    PROJECT 2020 WORLD MAYOR 2020 Mayors fighting Poverty PROJECT 2018 WORLD MAYOR 2018 • Results 2018 • Project 2018 • Shortlist 2018 • Longlist 2018 • Raison d'être • World Mayor history • World Mayor Prize • Code of Ethics • Criteria • Meet the Press INTERVIEWS WITH • Mayor of Ancona • Mayor of Doncaster • Mayor of Rennes • Mayor of Zamboanga ESSAYS BY • Mayor of Ancona • Mayor of Cologne • Mayor of Doncaster • Mayor of Fort Worth • Mayor of Lille • Mayor of Paris • Mayor of Rennes • Mayor of Saarbrücken • Mayor of Trbovlje • Mayor of Tunis • Mayor of Zamboanga TESTIMONIALS • Mayor of Alphen / Rijn • Mayor of Ancona • Mayor of Baden-Baden • Mayor of Calais • Mayor of Chemnitz • Mayor of Cologne • Mayor of Cozumel • Mayor of Doncaster • Mayor of Fort Worth • Mayor of Grand Rapids • Mayor of Lille • Mayor of Lodz • Mayor of Molenbeek • Mayor of Narayanganj • Mayor of Oakland • Mayor of Omaha • Mayor of Paris • Mayor of Rennes • Mayor of Reutlingen • Mayor of Saarbrücken • Mayor of San Juan • Mayor of Trbovlje • Mayor of Tunis • Mayor of Zamboanga • Mayor of Zurich PROFILES OF • Mayor of Ancona • Mayor of Cologne • Mayor of Doncaster • Mayor of Fort Worth • Mayor of Lille • Mayor of Paris • Mayor of Rennes • Mayor of Saarbrücken • Mayor of Trbovlje • Mayor of Tunis • Mayor of Zamboanga WORLD MAYOR 2016 WORLD MAYOR 2014 WORLD MAYOR 2012 WORLD MAYOR 2010 WORLD MAYOR 2008 WORLD MAYOR 2006 WORLD MAYOR 2005 WORLD MAYOR 2004 |
World Mayor 2020 Mayors fighting poverty Society, despite all its achievements, will have failed if it cannot work toward ending poverty. Poverty, by and large man-made, prevents humanity from achieving its full potential. It devastates the lives of young and old, man and woman, urban and rural dweller. It is prevalent across the world, found in the richest cities and festering in the poorest villages. Recognising poverty as a crime against humanity, every one of us must fight it. For mankind to have a glorious future, we must reach out to the poor in the slums of Asia and Africa, the shanty towns of South America and the left-behind communities of Europe and North America, as well as to those living in refugee camps scattered across the world. Poverty is about the lack of the very basic requirements to survive – food, housing, health, safety – but also about insufficient provision to allow growth and development – education, tools, opportunities. While the elimination of poverty requires a herculean effort by the world community, it is local government that faces the reality of poverty on its streets. There is hardly a mayor, local councillor or social worker who does not have to deal every day with the human misery and distress caused by material and social hardship. The 2020 World Mayor Project will pay tribute to those in local government whose compassion, courage and sacrifice improve the lives of the poor and disadvantaged, as well as to those who have developed policies to reduce poverty long-term. The 2020 World Mayor Prize and other honours will be presented to mayors who are working to relieve the hardships of the poor on a daily basis. A special award will recognise the accomplishments of individuals working in refugee camps. The 2020 World Mayor Project will be launched in January 2020, but we are already accepting nominations and suggestions. Please propose mayors, and their towns and cities, who have made the relief of poverty one of their top priorities, providing as much information as possible in your submissions. We would also like to hear from anyone who works, as a volunteer or official, in a refugee camp. Please email us on: mayors.fighting.poverty@gmail.com World Mayor 2018 Ancona Mayor Valeria Mancinelli wins the 2018 World Mayor Prize 2018 Results ||| 2018 Project ||| History ||| Raison d'être ||| The Prize The 2018 World Mayor Project is dedicated to women in local government. It features the achievements of women mayors from across the world and honours the best of them. The all-women long- and shortlists included mayors from towns and cities of all sizes who have served with integrity, determination and imagination. The 2018 World Mayor Prize and Commendations as well as the title Mayors of Distinction are conferred on female mayors who have instigated outstanding and long-lasting improvements to their communities and contributed new thinking to local government. The mayors' achievements are recognised beyond their cities and even countries. Winner of the 2018 World Mayor Prize • Valeria Mancinelli, Mayor of Ancona, Italy World Mayor Commendations awarded to • Ros Jones, Mayor of Doncaster, UK • Nathalie Appéré, Mayor of Rennes, France • Charlotte Britz, Mayor of Saarbrücken, Germany • Beng Climaco, Mayor of Zamboanga City, Philippines 2018 Mayors of Distinction • Henriette Reker, Mayor of Cologne, Germany • Betsy Prize, Mayor of Fort Worth, USA • Martine Aubry, Mayor of Lille, France • Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, France • Jasna Gabric, Mayor of Trbovlje, Slovenia • Souad Abderrahim, Mayor of Tunis, Tunesia FULL RESULTS ||| OBJECTIVES & METHODOLOGY The 2018 Shortlist Some 27 mayors from 20 countries The shortlist for the 2018 World Mayor Prize, which was announced on 4 September 2018, includes 27 female mayors from 20 countries who have entered local politics not because they wanted or needed to prove that women can succeed in an environment shaped by men but because they believed they had the right ideas, skills and ambitions to help their communities to flourish. World Mayor 2018 features the achievements and goals of women mayors from across the world and honours the best of them. The short list closed on 30 November 2018. THE SHORTLIST The 2018 Longlist The longlist for the 2018 World Mayor Prize included 62 women mayors from 36 countries in all world regions: North America (16); South America (3); Europe (28); Asia (9); Australasia (2); Africa (4). Some women mayors govern large metropolises, such as Paris, Madrid or Sydney while others represent smaller towns and cities. The longlist closed on 10 August 2018. THE LONGLIST Press and Media coverage 2019 Since the launch of World Mayor 2018 in late January, news and media organisations from across the world have been reporting and commenting on this year’s Project. The decision by the City Mayors Foundation, its organisers, to dedicate World Mayor 2018 to women mayors has been widely welcomed. While some faces on the longlist and shortlist are already well-known and respected, the lists also features remarkable women who, because they are mayors of smaller cities, have so far had little international exposure. World Mayor 2018 and the media coverage it generates have introduced outstanding female mayors from across the world to an international audience. PRESS COVERAGE Code of Ethics for city leaders The City Mayors Foundation and the World Mayor Project were established in 2003 to promote, encourage and facilitate good local government. To strengthen local government further, a Code of Ethics for city leaders, who wish to perform their duties beyond all reproach, has been devised. MORE World Mayor Prize sculpture shows courage and conviction City Mayors commissioned French artist Manuel Ferrari to design a sculpture that was as unique as the city of the winning mayor. City Mayors' senior fellow, Tann vom Hove, said: “We asked Manuel Ferrari to produce a design that shows what an inspirational mayor can achieve if he builds on strong foundations.” “I wanted to create a design that also showed courage and conviction,” Manuel Ferrari explained. “I decided on cubes as building blocks which, at first glance, are stacked precariously on top of each other. Closer inspection, however, reveals firm interlocking and construction around an invisible but strong spine.” He said that his design reflected his own experience of living and working in an urban environment. “Many of the world’s most successful cities are prospering because their different communities, often with their own cultures, are united around civic goals,” Manuel Ferrari concluded. MORE ABOUT WORLD MAYOR
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WORLD MAYOR 2020 FIGHTING POVERTY WORLD  In 2018, the wealth of the world’s billionaires increased by US$2 billion a day, while the world’s poorest 3.8 million people became poorer by 11%. (Source: Oxfam) USA  In the US, more than one in every eight Americans, numbering 40 million, equal to 12.7% of the population, are living in poverty and almost half of those – 18.5 million – in abysmal poverty. In 2016, 18% of children – some 13.3 million – were living in poverty, with children comprising 32.6% of all people in poverty. In the OECD the US ranks 35th out of 37 in terms of poverty and inequality. (Sources: UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights and the Stanford Center on Inequality and Poverty) CANADA  In Alberta, Canada, child poverty has fallen from 10% to 5% thanks to a range of federal, state and municipal initiatives. As part of Cities Reducing Poverty, Calgary provided free, healthy lunches and snacks for anyone who texted the word 'food'. (Source: Tamarack Institute) LATIN AMERICA  In Latin America, income inequality and the amount of people living in extreme poverty are rising. While Mexico has made some progress, it would take until 2035 until the country would reach its poverty goals. Mexico is not the only country struggling to address rising poverty. In all of Latin America, 84 million people are still poor. Even more alarming, 63 million live in extreme poverty, the highest number in a decade. (Source: National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy) ARGENTINA  In Argentina, some 12.7 million people are now suffering from a lack of food, housing and access to healthcare and education. In Greater Buenos Aires, the most populated region of Argentina, the poverty rate rose to 41.1%. In 2018 alone, 750,000 people in the region slipped into poverty. (Sources: Argentina Catholic University and the Observatory of Argentina Social Debt) UK  In Britain, 4.1 million children live in poverty, a figure expected to rise to 5.2 million by 2022. Children from Black and minority ethnic groups are more likely to be in poverty: 45 per cent are now in poverty, compared with 26 per cent of children in White British families. (Source: Child Poverty Action Group) FRANCE  In some banlieues of Paris more than 40% of residents live below the poverty line, compared to 14% nationally. Unemployment, at 24% - 38% among young people - is more than double the national average. (Sources: Observatoire des inégalités and Le Monde) GERMANY  Germany’s 930 food banks support more than 1.5 million people in need of food throughout the country – nearly one third of them are children and young people. (Source: Tafel Deutschland) GREECE  A refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos built to house 640 people is home to 3,745, with unaccompanied children forced to sleep on the floor of windowless and overcrowded containers. The Mayor of Samos warned of riots due to the ‘primitive’ conditions. (Sources: European Union audit, The Guardian newspaper and Agence France Presse) SPAIN  In Spain, one of every six middle-class families now lives below the poverty line. (Source: Oxfam) AFRICA  In Sub-Saharan Africa, the overall number of extremely poor people is increasing rather than decreasing, according to the World Bank's latest Poverty and Shared Prosperity report. Globally, rates of extreme poverty — defined as earning less than $1.90 (€1.64) a day — have dramatically declined, falling from 1.9 billion in 1990 to approximately 736 million now. However, an estimated 413 million people in Africa currently live in extreme poverty — more than half of the world's total. (Source: World Bank) KENYA  In Nairobi, Kenya, so-called slum schools help improve the prospects for the children within the slums by providing sustained educational facilities, essential healthcare . (Source: Nairobi Slums School Project Trust) SOUTH AFRICA  In South Africa, 30.4 million people live in poverty. (Source: Oxfam) AUSTRALIA  In Australia, three million people live in poverty. Some 731,000 are children and a total of 1.1 million are under the age of 24. (Source: Australian Council of Social Services) INDIA  In India, some 370 million people still live in poverty despite a reduction of 50% since the 1990s. (Sources: World Bank and UN Development Programme) LEBANON  Lebanon has hosted an estimated 1.5 million refugees since 2011, the highest per capita number of any country in the world. (Source: World Food Programme) JAPAN  One in seven children in Japan lives in relative poverty. Since poverty is passed on from generation to generation, its effects multiply into the future. New legislation calls on municipal governments, in addition to prefectural authorities, to draft action plans to address the problems faced by children from low-income backgrounds. (Source: Nikkei Asian Review) |