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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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List of abbreviations

  • AAAA: Addis Ababa Action Agenda
  • AAP: Annual Action Plan
  • ADA: Austrian Development Agency
  • AECID: Spanish Agency for Development Cooperation
  • AP: Action plan
  • CFSP: Common Foreign and Security Policy
  • CLIP: Country-level implementation plan
  • CSDP: Common Security and Defence Policy
  • CSO: Civil society organisation
  • DAC: Development Assistance Committee
  • DFA: Development finance assessment
  • DFI: Development Finance Institution
  • DG INTPA: Directorate-General for International Partnerships
  • DG ENEST: Directorate-General for Enlargement and Eastern Neighbourhood
  • DG MENA: Directorate-General for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf
  • EBRD: European Bank of Reconstruction and Development
  • EC: European Commission
  • ECDPM: European Centre for Development Policy Management
  • EEAS: EU External Action Service
  • EFSD+: European Fund for Sustainable Development Plus
  • EIB: European Investment Bank
  • EU: European Union
  • EUGS: EU Global Strategy
  • FFPA: Financial Framework Partnership Agreement
  • FIAPP: Fundación para Internacionalización de las Administraciones Públicas
  • GAP: III Gender Action Plan III
  • HDP nexus: Humanitarian, peace and development nexus
  • HoC: Head of Cooperation
  • HoM: Head of Mission
  • HRBA: Human Rights Based Approach
  • IADC: Italian Agency for Development Cooperation
  • INFF: Integrated national financing frameworks
  • JI: Joint implementation
  • JIAF: Joint Intersectoral Analysis Framework
  • JIL: Joint intervention logic
  • JP: Joint programming
  • JPD: Joint programming document
  • JRF: Joint results framework
  • LA: Local authority
  • LAC: Latin America and Caribbean
  • MIP: Multiannual indicative programmes
  • MORE framework: Monitoring, evaluation and results framework
  • NAP: National Development Plan
  • NDICI-Global: Neighbourhood, Development, and Europe International Cooperation Instrument - Global Europe
  • ODA : Official development assistance
  • OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  • SDG: Sustainable Development Goal
  • SME: Small to medium sized enterprises
  • TAIEX: Technical Assistance and Information Exchange
  • TEA: Team Europe approach
  • TEI: Team Europe Initiative
  • TOSSD: Total Official Support for Sustainable Development
  • UN: United Nations
  • UNSDCF: United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework
  • WB: World Bank