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Working Better Together in a Team Europe Approach

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Last Updated: 05 December 2025
A tool to help EU Delegations work better together with Member States as Team Europe and with like-minded partners and country stakeholders, through Team Europe Initiatives, joint programming and joint implementation.

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1.2.1. Development effectiveness and the first EU commitments on joint programming

The EU made its first external action commitment to joint programming at the High-Level Forum on Development Effectiveness in Busan[7], with the aim of improving the way it works together with Member States at partner country level, in line with partner country priorities and plans. Over time, joint programming has evolved from being a development assistance tool (Busan, 2011) to a mechanism used within European external action (EU Global Strategy, 2016). The Commission and EU Member States have been at the forefront of promoting and leading on the development effectiveness agenda, in particular through their commitment to the development effectiveness principles and processes to ensure they work better together.

7 https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/busan-partnership-for-effective-development-co-operation_54de7baa-en.html