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Uruguay

The Country Office of Uruguay supports the government's plan to achieve inclusive, sustainable growth, with an emphasis on creating quality jobs, incorporating a gender and social inclusion perspective, and considering the use of digital technologies.

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Country Office
Luiz Ros Representante país Uruguay. Desarrollo Sostenible - Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo - BID
Luiz Ros
IDB Country Representative in Uruguay
[email protected]

 

Overview

 

Uruguay is one of the founding member countries of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). As with all IDB shareholders, Uruguay appoints a Governor who represents the country on the IDB Board of Governors.

At the Bank’s Headquarters in Washington, D.C., Uruguay is represented on the Board of Executive Directors. This position is shared with Bolivia and Paraguay, and is held by an Executive Director elected to a three-year term by the Governors of Uruguay, Bolivia, and Paraguay.
 

Uruguay's representatives at the IDB

Executive Director: Carlos Javier Charotti Ramirez

ALTERNATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR(S):

  • Luis Alberto Porto Rizzo

ELECTED BY: Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay

Total Contribution: 33,405,600

Number of votes: 172,781

of the institution's ownership

Address: Rincón 640 esq. Bartolomé Mitre

Montevideo, Uruguay
 

Casilla de correo 5029

Montevideo, Uruguay
 

Phone number: (598-2) 915-4330

E-mail:  [email protected]

IDB Lab Announces Winners of WeXchange Women STEMpreneurs 2025
Five entrepreneurs will present their solutions on December 2 at GET Forum, the IDB Group’s flagship event on innovation and technology for development. WASHINGTON – IDB Lab, the innovation and venture capital arm of the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB Group), has announced the five women...
“Unseen Threads” Art Exhibit to Open at IDB Headquarters
WASHINGTON — The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will launch Unseen Threads: Weaving Connections Across Latin American and Caribbean Art on September 4 at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. Organized in collaboration with the embassies of Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay, the exhibition...
Mercosur Digital Citizen Initiative to Enhance Service Delivery and Simplify Procedures
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Inter-American Network on Digital Government (GEALC Network) today unveiled Mercosur Digital Citizen, an initiative that will allow citizens of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay to use their national digital ID to carry out government...
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Sep 18, 2025
IDB Cities Network Webinar: Data for Urban Resilience
06:00 AM - 07:30 AM
Sep 18, 2025
Code4Dev | Learn to Implement the Open Source Tool DIGIT
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
United States of America - Outro
Sep 22, 2025
EconNet | How Are Gender Norms Perceived?
08:00 AM - 09:30 AM
United States of America - Washington, D.C.

Videos available in Spanish

Frigorífico Anglo del Uruguay, Fray Bentos: gestión patrimonial con investigación y desarrollo
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Revitalización de barrios con eje inclusivo y patrimonial: Goes y el Mercado Agrícola, Montevideo
Learn More
Desarrollo con impacto: mejorando vidas en Uruguay
Learn More
Resumen Día 1: Test & Invest - Uruguay Business Summit
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Resumen Día 2: Test & Invest - Uruguay Business Summit
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Strategy and Projects

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) serves as the primary source of international financing for Uruguay. In collaboration with national authorities, the IDB has pinpointed the following strategic areas for cooperation:

  1. Public Resource Management: Enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of public resource allocation and management.
  2. Sustainable Productive Development: Promoting economic activities that contribute to sustainable growth and development.
  3. Equity and Social Inclusion: Ensuring that development benefits are shared equitably across all segments of society.

These focus areas will incorporate considerations for gender equality, social inclusion, environmental sustainability, and the application of digital technologies. Additionally, the IDB has identified opportunities for private sector engagement in key sectors such as energy and climate change, infrastructure, and financing for the export sector and SMEs, particularly in agribusiness.

Country strategies remain valid for one year beyond the stated period, as they remain active throughout the preparation of the following strategy

IDB Country Strategy with Uruguay 2021-2025
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Hidrógeno verde y potencial para Uruguay - Available only in Spanish
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Project Number Sector Subsector Project Title Financing Project Status Approval Date
UR-L1211 URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING NEIGHBORHOOD UPGRADING Comprehensive Care Program for Habitat and Housing Vulnerability with a Focus on Children and Adolescents - Preparation
UR-T1344 PRIVATE FIRMS AND SME DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT, CLUSTERS AND INNOVATION Strengthening business and public innovation in Uruguay 400,000.00 Preparation
UR-O1171 TRANSPORT URBAN TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE Transformation of the Montevideo Metropolitan Transportation System 500,000,000.00 Preparation
UR-O1174 TRANSPORT MAJOR HIGHWAYS Support for improving the quality of transportation infrastructure spending in Uruguay - Preparation
UR-T1357 FINANCIAL MARKETS CAPITAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT Support for the Capital Market Reform Agenda in Uruguay 250,000.00 Preparation
UR-L1210 TRANSPORT TRANSPORT Program for the Transformation of the Montevideo Metropolitan Transportation System 10,000,000.00 Preparation
UR-L1205 REFORM / MODERNIZATION OF THE STATE REFORM / MODERNIZATION OF THE STATE Project for institutional and operational strengthening of fiscal management in Uruguay 20,000,000.00 Preparation
UR-O1172 - - Conditional Credit Line to strengthen fiscal sustainability in Uruguay. - Preparation
UR-L1211 Comprehensive Care Program for Habitat and Housing Vulnerability with a Focus on Children and Adolescents
  • Sector: URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: -
UR-T1344 Strengthening business and public innovation in Uruguay
  • Sector: PRIVATE FIRMS AND SME DEVELOPMENT
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: 400,000.00
UR-O1171 Transformation of the Montevideo Metropolitan Transportation System
  • Sector: TRANSPORT
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: 500,000,000.00
UR-O1174 Support for improving the quality of transportation infrastructure spending in Uruguay
  • Sector: TRANSPORT
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: -
UR-T1357 Support for the Capital Market Reform Agenda in Uruguay
  • Sector: FINANCIAL MARKETS
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: 250,000.00
UR-L1210 Program for the Transformation of the Montevideo Metropolitan Transportation System
  • Sector: TRANSPORT
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: 10,000,000.00
UR-L1205 Project for institutional and operational strengthening of fiscal management in Uruguay
  • Sector: REFORM / MODERNIZATION OF THE STATE
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: 20,000,000.00
UR-O1172 Conditional Credit Line to strengthen fiscal sustainability in Uruguay.
  • Sector: -
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: -
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Country Office
Luiz Ros Representante país Uruguay. Desarrollo Sostenible - Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo - BID
Luiz Ros
IDB Country Representative in Uruguay
[email protected]

 

Overview

 

Uruguay is one of the founding member countries of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). As with all IDB shareholders, Uruguay appoints a Governor who represents the country on the IDB Board of Governors.

At the Bank’s Headquarters in Washington, D.C., Uruguay is represented on the Board of Executive Directors. This position is shared with Bolivia and Paraguay, and is held by an Executive Director elected to a three-year term by the Governors of Uruguay, Bolivia, and Paraguay.
 

Uruguay's representatives at the IDB

Executive Director: Carlos Javier Charotti Ramirez

ALTERNATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR(S):

  • Luis Alberto Porto Rizzo

ELECTED BY: Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay

Total Contribution: 33,405,600

Number of votes: 172,781

of the institution's ownership

Address: Rincón 640 esq. Bartolomé Mitre

Montevideo, Uruguay
 

Casilla de correo 5029

Montevideo, Uruguay
 

Phone number: (598-2) 915-4330

E-mail:  [email protected]

IDB Lab Announces Winners of WeXchange Women STEMpreneurs 2025
Five entrepreneurs will present their solutions on December 2 at GET Forum, the IDB Group’s flagship event on innovation and technology for development. WASHINGTON – IDB Lab, the innovation and venture capital arm of the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB Group), has announced the five women...
“Unseen Threads” Art Exhibit to Open at IDB Headquarters
WASHINGTON — The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will launch Unseen Threads: Weaving Connections Across Latin American and Caribbean Art on September 4 at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. Organized in collaboration with the embassies of Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay, the exhibition...
Mercosur Digital Citizen Initiative to Enhance Service Delivery and Simplify Procedures
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Inter-American Network on Digital Government (GEALC Network) today unveiled Mercosur Digital Citizen, an initiative that will allow citizens of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay to use their national digital ID to carry out government...
Be the first to find out about the IDB news in Uruguay!
Subscribe
Sep 18, 2025
IDB Cities Network Webinar: Data for Urban Resilience
06:00 AM - 07:30 AM
Sep 18, 2025
Code4Dev | Learn to Implement the Open Source Tool DIGIT
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
United States of America - Outro
Sep 22, 2025
EconNet | How Are Gender Norms Perceived?
08:00 AM - 09:30 AM
United States of America - Washington, D.C.

Videos available in Spanish

Frigorífico Anglo del Uruguay, Fray Bentos: gestión patrimonial con investigación y desarrollo
Learn More
Revitalización de barrios con eje inclusivo y patrimonial: Goes y el Mercado Agrícola, Montevideo
Learn More
Desarrollo con impacto: mejorando vidas en Uruguay
Learn More
Resumen Día 1: Test & Invest - Uruguay Business Summit
Learn More
Resumen Día 2: Test & Invest - Uruguay Business Summit
Learn More
Strategy and Projects

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) serves as the primary source of international financing for Uruguay. In collaboration with national authorities, the IDB has pinpointed the following strategic areas for cooperation:

  1. Public Resource Management: Enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of public resource allocation and management.
  2. Sustainable Productive Development: Promoting economic activities that contribute to sustainable growth and development.
  3. Equity and Social Inclusion: Ensuring that development benefits are shared equitably across all segments of society.

These focus areas will incorporate considerations for gender equality, social inclusion, environmental sustainability, and the application of digital technologies. Additionally, the IDB has identified opportunities for private sector engagement in key sectors such as energy and climate change, infrastructure, and financing for the export sector and SMEs, particularly in agribusiness.

Country strategies remain valid for one year beyond the stated period, as they remain active throughout the preparation of the following strategy

IDB Country Strategy with Uruguay 2021-2025
Download
Hidrógeno verde y potencial para Uruguay - Available only in Spanish
Download
Project Number Sector Subsector Project Title Financing Project Status Approval Date
UR-L1211 URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING NEIGHBORHOOD UPGRADING Comprehensive Care Program for Habitat and Housing Vulnerability with a Focus on Children and Adolescents - Preparation
UR-T1344 PRIVATE FIRMS AND SME DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT, CLUSTERS AND INNOVATION Strengthening business and public innovation in Uruguay 400,000.00 Preparation
UR-O1171 TRANSPORT URBAN TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE Transformation of the Montevideo Metropolitan Transportation System 500,000,000.00 Preparation
UR-O1174 TRANSPORT MAJOR HIGHWAYS Support for improving the quality of transportation infrastructure spending in Uruguay - Preparation
UR-T1357 FINANCIAL MARKETS CAPITAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT Support for the Capital Market Reform Agenda in Uruguay 250,000.00 Preparation
UR-L1210 TRANSPORT TRANSPORT Program for the Transformation of the Montevideo Metropolitan Transportation System 10,000,000.00 Preparation
UR-L1205 REFORM / MODERNIZATION OF THE STATE REFORM / MODERNIZATION OF THE STATE Project for institutional and operational strengthening of fiscal management in Uruguay 20,000,000.00 Preparation
UR-O1172 - - Conditional Credit Line to strengthen fiscal sustainability in Uruguay. - Preparation
UR-L1211 Comprehensive Care Program for Habitat and Housing Vulnerability with a Focus on Children and Adolescents
  • Sector: URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: -
UR-T1344 Strengthening business and public innovation in Uruguay
  • Sector: PRIVATE FIRMS AND SME DEVELOPMENT
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: 400,000.00
UR-O1171 Transformation of the Montevideo Metropolitan Transportation System
  • Sector: TRANSPORT
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: 500,000,000.00
UR-O1174 Support for improving the quality of transportation infrastructure spending in Uruguay
  • Sector: TRANSPORT
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: -
UR-T1357 Support for the Capital Market Reform Agenda in Uruguay
  • Sector: FINANCIAL MARKETS
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: 250,000.00
UR-L1210 Program for the Transformation of the Montevideo Metropolitan Transportation System
  • Sector: TRANSPORT
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: 10,000,000.00
UR-L1205 Project for institutional and operational strengthening of fiscal management in Uruguay
  • Sector: REFORM / MODERNIZATION OF THE STATE
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: 20,000,000.00
UR-O1172 Conditional Credit Line to strengthen fiscal sustainability in Uruguay.
  • Sector: -
  • Project Status: Preparation
  • Approval Date:
  • Financing: -
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