The new local communities sanctioned by recent legislation will play a key role. No special finance is foreseen in the current budget. However, the municipalities and the collectives will make do. In the meantime, most of the financial facilities of the MOE come from international funding. The GOH cooperates with the Dominican Republic and with all the Caribbean countries.
Regional cooperation includes Venezuela and Peru.
The cooperation includes exchange of information, technical assistance and provision of equipment. This information is based on Haiti's submission to the 5th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, April 1997. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women was ratified on October 8, 1982. An additional convention, that of Belem Dopara in Brazil, dealing with violence against women has been ratified on April 3, 1996. A Ministry of Women's Affairs and Women's Rights was established on 10 November, 1995.