The strategy spotlights investments to enhance trade and connectivity throughout the region and mobilise private sector finance to improve access to infrastructure services and promote women's participation and empowerment. Australia intends to give less priority to financing for infrastructure building, focusing more on providing technical assistance for project preparation and regulatory reform (Australia, 2015). Particular emphasis is placed on construction and rehabilitation of infrastructure in conflict and disaster-affected countries, such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Haiti, to foster stability and fuel economic recovery.