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During the 2000 Magsaysay Awards presentation ceremony, the Foundation announced the creation of a sixth Award category, Emergent Leadership.

This new Award category was established with the support of a grant from the Ford Foundation.

The Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership honors " individuals, forty years of age and below, doing outstanding work on issues of social change in their communities, but whose leadership is not yet broadly recognized outside of these communities.

" An award in this category was given for the first time in 2001.