Division (4) Support regional integration and cooperation across North and South East Asia

encouraging greater regional integration and cooperation in a result-oriented way through support to regional integration and dialogue;

supporting socio-economic integration and connectivity of ASEAN, including the implementation of the development-related objectives of the ASEAN Economic Community, the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity and the Post-2015 Vision;

promoting trade-related assistance and development aid for trade, including to ensure that microenterprises and SMEs benefit from international trading opportunities;

leveraging financing for sustainable infrastructures and networks favouring regional integration, social inclusion and cohesion and sustainable growth, while ensuring complementarity with activities supported by the EIB and other Union financing institutions as well as with other institutions in this area;

encouraging dialogue between ASEAN institutions and countries and the Union;

supporting regional initiatives targeting the major communicable diseases; contributing to preventing and responding to health risks, including those originating at the interface between animals, humans and their various environments.