The Baghdad Governorate and Baghdad Municipality Council manage Iraq's capital on the Tigris River — rehabilitating the Abbasid-era Al-Mutanabbi Street book market, operating the Baghdad Metro's first line, maintaining Tigris River flood embankments and bridge infrastructure, rebuilding power grid capacity across a city impacted by decades of conflict, and managing the historic 1950s Tharthar Depression flood diversion channel that protects 8.5 million residents.
Baghdad is waiting for its first mayor on the Board of Mayors.
The Baghdad Municipality Council manages reconstruction of the historic Al-Mutanabbi Street cultural corridor — the heart of Arab literary culture for over 1,000 years, named after the 10th-century poet — coordinating restoration of Ottoman-era arcade buildings, weekly book market logistics for hundreds of street vendors, café heritage conservation, and security infrastructure for a street that has repeatedly served as Baghdad's symbol of cultural resilience.
The Baghdad Governorate manages the Tharthar Depression flood diversion channel — a 1950s-era hydraulic infrastructure project that diverts Tigris flood surges into a vast desert depression northwest of the city — protecting 8.5 million residents from catastrophic flooding, requiring continuous sluice gate maintenance, channel dredging, and coordination between the municipality and national water authorities for emergency activation protocols.
How a term works
One hour a day. Each session brings a directive from the city's services, a decision to make, and a measured result. A term is scored on approval, infrastructure, environment and innovation, inside a real budget, and every mayor's work adds to Baghdad's own record on the Board of Mayors. Cities lift each other: there is no losing city.