Other types of cooperation

Decentralized cooperation
Regional cooperation
Police and military cooperation

The cooperation initiatives implemented by French territorial communities are dynamic, in particular with regard to training local elected representatives and municipal management (General Council of Savoy, Regional Councils of Brittany, Aquitaine, Alsace and Ile-de-France, Township Community of La Rochelle, the City of Suresnes, Ile-de-France Water Syndicate, etc.).

The France-Haiti Conference on Decentralized Cooperation was held 10-11 July 2009, with the participation of about 50 French local elected representatives and all of the mayors of the towns of Haiti. The Haitian government confirmed its desire to successfully complete a decentralization process.

Regional cooperation with the DFA was resumed through open funding for the Regional Cooperation Fund (FCR) of the West Indies-Guyana zone, led by the Prefect of the Guadeloupe region. Current cooperation initiatives concern: education (cooperation between the University of the West Indies-Guyana and École Normale Supérieure in Port-au Prince), health (training of Haitian doctors in Guadeloupe, support for nursing/midwife schools in Port-au-Prince, etc.), the legal system and security (fight against drug trafficking, financial divisions, juvenile division), and culture (contacts established with the Centres martiniquais d’action culturelle and various cultural operators in order to organize artistic exchanges).

France is participating in MINUSTAH (United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti), providing approximately 60 men.

The professionalization of Haiti’s Judiciary Police receives long-term support from French cooperation initiatives, intended to provide it with suitable equipment (creation of a medico-legal institute, a central judiciary police database), strengthen its network (creation of branches of the Central Directorate of the Judiciary Police), and train its officers (sending specialized trainers to lead training courses, assistance in creating a financial division and a division tasked with protecting minors in partnership with UNICEF).

Updated on 15.01.10