Concept and Purpose: What are the Dialogues on the Future of Uruguay and what are they for?

The United Nations agencies, funds, and programs aim to create a space for reflection and exchange regarding the main challenges facing Uruguay in achieving the goals related to the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

In this sense, the "Dialogues on the Future of Uruguay" initiative aims to create this space for reflection and exchange. Likewise, it reflects our mandate to promote sustainable development, contributing to a better understanding of the social, economic, and environmental challenges and opportunities that the country will face in the coming decades. The dialogues will convene various actors from Uruguayan society.

Through this initiative, based on our mandate, we aim to identify the key issues for the country to make a leap in development, understanding it as a process that encompasses greater economic and social well-being for its inhabitants, in harmony with the environment.

Going beyond fragmented analysis of productive, social, and environmental spheres to reflect on pending challenges, and therefore possible solutions, implies seeking new ways of thinking about challenges, articulating narratives compatible with sustainable development.

To this end, it is proposed to complement the initiatives of the Cooperation Framework with a series of dialogues, allowing for a deeper reflection on the necessary topics to advance towards that leap in development, working jointly with the agencies that make up the Country Team.

The objective of the dialogue cycle is to convene all sectors of Uruguayan society, including government, public sector, private sector, academia, civil society, unions, and youth, leaving no one behind.

In summary, and in accordance with the above, the following will be sought:

Initiate a series of discussions on strategic topics related to Uruguay's main future challenges, with a prospective and long-term view.

Systematize discussions that contribute to an integrated and organized narrative of a sustainable development agenda, through an approach that goes beyond the view of "projects" and individual contributions by agency.

Additionally, an advisory committee has been established to support the initiative with representatives from various sectors of Uruguayan society and thus enrich the dialogues. The Advisory Committee is composed of distinguished personalities from the country: the president of the Astur Foundation, Mr. Enrique Iglesias, the scientist Martina Crispo, the artist and sculptor Pablo Atchugarry, and the journalist Carolina García.