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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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2.2.1 Joint sector gap analysis

Joint sector gap analysis as a basis for joint policy dialogue provides opportunities to improve European leverage in political and policy dialogue by bringing a coherent message grounded in evidence. In some cases, this leverage is being used to great effect:

Georgia

In Georgia, several joint European messages based on a shared sector gap analysis and commonly agreed objectives were drafted in 2020 and further developed and updated. The joint messages were used in the Georgia’s Government coordination platform and served to present the coordinated EU positions in the different Thematic Working Groups. This approach enhanced the EU’s impact and visibility during donor coordination meetings and meetings with the government.