Joint Programming

This study offers a more comprehensive picture of how the EU and EU Member States work on Joint Programming is supporting the SDGs, as well as to identify remaining gaps. ​

Recommendations for country-level work in the study include:

A more joined-up Union in Middle-Income Countries matters as much to implementing the SDGs, as it does to the EU's own economic, social and political interests, and those relating to trade, migration and security.

The report shows that EU Joint Programming has been recognised as a tool for bringing together political & cooperation spheres, as well as involving other key actors (humanitarian, security, peacebuilding, stabilisation) in common planning processes.