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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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3.2 Key characteristics of joint implementation

Joint implementation delivers most benefits when it:

  • is specific to the country context;
  • can make effective links to other areas of European external action or priorities, and align with policy initiatives such as Joint Programming documents, TEIs, Global Gateway flagship projects, the EU’s gender action plan III, the EU Civil Society Roadmap, the Human Rights and Democracy Strategy, the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus and the EU Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030;
  • combines various financial and non-financial modalities, making best use of the combined EU and Member States’ toolboxes and their comparative advantages;
  • is based on sharing and applying best practices, experiences and networks at country/regional level;
  • covers the entire action cycle, project cycle, etc.; specifies the role and responsibilities of each partner during the whole cycle, including for joint monitoring and joint evaluation processes; and
  • allows unified communication partnerships outside the EU, ensuring that partner countries give recognition to the EU’s contribution and take a role in guaranteeing that the beneficial impact of the EU’s contribution is understood by the citizens that gain from it.