Working Better Together in a Team Europe Approach

The NDICI-Global Europe aims to support countries that are most in need to overcome their long-term developmental challenges, and will contribute to achieving the international commitments and objectives that the EU has agreed to, in particular the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. Article 12.2(c) states that joint programming is the EU’s ‘preferred approach for country programming and its implementation shall be flexible, inclusive and driven at country level’. Article 14.3.4 adds: ‘To increase the impact of collective cooperation of the Union, where possible and appropriate, a joint programming document shall replace the Union’s and Member States programming documents’.

Following the success of the Team Europe approach designed to address the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Team Europe approach was used to draw up a set of TEIs during the programming of NDICI- Global Europe. NDICI-Global Europe’s country, multi-country and regional multiannual indicative programmes (MIPs) for 2021 to 2027 include, where feasible, potential TEIs in line with MIP priority areas.