Policy Dialogue on the Malaga Global Coalition for Municipal Finance:

The Dialogue on the Malaga Global Coalition for Municipal Finance will take place from October 5 to 6, 2023 in Malaga, Spain.

The Málaga Coalition aims to equip subnational governments with financial and technical support to realize their full potential in the provision of sustainable public services and infrastructures to drive the required transformation. In this context, UNCDF’s 2022 flagship publication “Local Government Finance is Development Finance” provides further evidence that the current global financial ecosystem is not working for cities and local governments and demonstrates how local “financeable transformative” investments (rather than merely “bankable commercial” projects) are central to financing sustainable urbanization.