S/RES/1379 (2001) 11. Requests the agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations to: (a) Coordinate their support and assistance to parties to armed conflict in fulfilling their obligations and commitments to children; (b) Take account of ways of reducing child recruitment that is contrary to accepted international standards when formulating development assistance programmes; (c) Devote particular attention and adequate resources to the rehabilitation of children affected by armed conflict, particularly their counselling, education and appropriate vocational opportunities, as a preventive measure and as a means of reintegrating them into society; (d) Ensure that the special needs and particular vulnerabilities of girls affected by armed conflict, including those heading households, orphaned, sexually exploited and used as combatants, are duly taken into account in the design of development assistance programmes, and that adequate resources are allocated to such programmes; (e) Integrate HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention, care and support into emergency, humanitarian, and post-conflict programmes; (f) Support the development of local capacity to address post-conflict child rehabilitation and reintegration concerns; (g) Promote a culture of peace, including through support for peace education programmes and other non-violent approaches to conflict prevention and resolution, in peace-building activities; 12. Encourages the international financial institutions and regional financial and development institutions to: (a) Devote part of their assistance to rehabilitation and reintegration programmes conducted jointly by agencies, funds, programmes and State parties to conflicts that have taken effective measures to comply with their obligations to protect children in situations of armed conflict, including the demobilization and reintegration of child soldiers, in particular those who have been used in armed conflicts contrary to international law; (b) Contribute resources for quick-impact projects in conflict zones where peacekeeping operations are deployed or are in the process of deployment; (c) Support the efforts of the regional organizations engaged in activities for the benefit of children affected by armed conflict, by providing them with financial and technical assistance, as appropriate; 13. Urges regional and subregional organizations and arrangements to: (a) Consider establishing, within their secretariats, child protection mechanisms for the development and implementation of policies, activities and advocacy for the benefit of children affected by armed conflict, and consider the views of children in the design and implementation of such policies and programmes where possible; 4