Making the commitment to combat poverty together

Why take action … Poverty constitutes a violation of Human Rights. Eradicating it means reducing hunger and disease, reducing exclusion and lack of security,preventing social conflict,and providing better protection for the environment. … within the Alliance? To benefit from the experience of other municipalities. To pool resources. To increase the skills of the municipalities' elected representatives and employees. To amplify the appeal to make combating poverty an absolute priority at every level in our societies.
How to join the Alliance Fill in the membership application form and send to: World Alliance of Cities Against Poverty 11-13 Chemin des Anémones 1219 Geneva (Switzerland) Tel. +(41) 22 917 85 34 Fax +(41) 22 917 80 05 E-mail :mohand.cherifi@undp.org www.wacapcities.org	A city joins the network once its Municipal Council has ratified the Appeal of the Cities against Poverty and starts to take part in global information campaigns on poverty, paying a contribution commensurate with its resources.
A city wishing to help its citizens and those of other cities to fight poverty by joining the Alliance, makes its co-operation official by: signing the "Appeal of Cities Against Poverty" to give weight to the mobilisation of human and financial resources, and pooling its resources with those of other cities towards global information campains to overcome poverty, through the purchase of "shares" in the Alliance. These shares symbolise that the city bears a fraction of the overall costs of these campaingns and that the city has a stake in the network The value of the contribution is freely decided by each city, but as an indication, we suggested a purchase one to ten shares at USD 500 for industrialised countries, and at USD 100 for developing countries. Cities' endorsement of the appeal, and desire to purchase shares, should be communicated to UNDP at the following address: World Alliance of Cities Against Poverty 11-13 Chemin des Anémones 1219 Geneva (Switzerland) Payment for the checks should be made by bank check in US dollars to the order of UNDP at the same address.