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Individual Partnership Action Plans (2002-2023)
Updated: 18 June 2025
Individual Partnership Action Plans (IPAPs) were first launched at the Prague Summit in November 2002. They provided NATO partner countries with focused, country-specific advice on defence and security-related domestic reform and, when appropriate, on larger policy and institutional reform. IPAPS were progressively replaced by Individually Tailored Partnership Programmes (ITPPs), which today represent the main tool for bilateral cooperation between NATO and individual partner countries.
What was the purpose of IPAPs?
IPAPs were designed to ensure a comprehensive, tailored approach to partnerships. They facilitated the coordination of bilateral assistance provided by individual Allies, as well as the coordination of efforts with other relevant international institutions. IPAPs also enabled partners to support or contribute to another partner’s IPAP.
IPAPs were launched at the Prague Summit in November 2002. On 29 October 2004, Georgia became the first country to agree an IPAP with NATO. Azerbaijan agreed its first IPAP on 27 May 2005 and Armenia on 16 December 2005. On 31 January 2006, Kazakhstan also agreed an IPAP with NATO, followed by the Republic of Moldova on 19 May 2006, Bosnia and Herzegovina in February 2008, Montenegro in June 2008 (now a NATO member country) and, finally, Serbia on 15 January 2015. Since the phasing out of IPAPs, partner countries have worked with NATO to agree new frameworks for cooperation.
How did they work?
IPAPs set out the cooperation objectives and priorities between individual partner countries and NATO, ensuring that the various mechanisms in use corresponded directly to these priorities. These objectives covered a number of general categories, including: political and security issues; defence and military issues; public diplomacy; science and environment; civil preparedness; and administrative, protective security and resource issues. Intensified political dialogue on relevant issues was an integral part of an IPAP process. Partners periodically reviewed their IPAPs with NATO.
From IPAP to ITPP
The Individual Partnership Action Plan and the Individual Partnership and Cooperation Programme (IPCP) were formerly the standard documents for initiating and deepening a partner’s engagement with NATO, adaptable to the interests and objectives of the partner and NATO.
In order to improve NATO’s approach to organising its relations with partner countries, an overarching framework – based on the “One Partner, One Plan” concept – was agreed by the North Atlantic Council in March 2021. As a result, the Individually Tailored Partnership Programmes (ITPPs) represent today the main tool that NATO uses to coordinate bilateral cooperation with individual partners willing to deepen their relationship with the Alliance.