A/RES/56/189 12. Also encourages the United Nations system to promote strategies for human resources development that facilitate access by developing countries to new information and communication technologies so as to bridge the digital divide; 13. Further encourages the United Nations system to focus in its cooperation activities on building human and institutional capacity, with specific attention given to women, girls and vulnerable groups; 14. Encourages the United Nations system to continue to engage, where appropriate, in partnerships with the private sector, in accordance with relevant United Nations resolutions, so as to contribute further to the building of human resources development capacity in developing countries; 15. Invites international organizations, including international financial institutions, to continue to give priority to supporting the objectives of human resources development and to integrating them into their policies, projects and operations; 16. Calls upon developed countries and the United Nations system to increase support to programmes and activities in developing countries for advancing human resources development and capacity-building, in particular those geared towards harnessing information and communication technologies; 17. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution; 18. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session, under the item entitled “Sustainable development and international economic cooperation”, the sub-item entitled “Human resources development”. 90th plenary meeting 21 December 2001 4