Efficiency and sustainability in municipal social policies

Local governments play a crucial role in the fight for more sustainable world and, therefore, achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as they are closest public entities to citizens and best know their needs. should be driving force behind integrating different areas of sustainability municipalities, especially social services, which is focus this paper. However, these have limited resources, making it necessary provide services efficiently possible. To present complete picture factors that affect efficiency service provision, we taken into account SDGs related sphere (SDG 1, SDG 2, 5, 10), addition determinants usually collected studies on local governments. For sample Spanish found made progress 2 efficient. In contrast, municipalities worked most reduce gender inequalities 5) less efficient providing services. The other do not influence analysed.