Gender-balanced representation (gender parity), in elected bodies appears more and more as an international standard. In Council of Europe States, “balanced participation of women and men is taken to mean that the representation of either women or men in any decision-making body in political or public life should not fall below 40%”. The Haitian authorities should consider the introduction of rules encouraging such parity, which will be the easiest at local level where the vote takes place in multi-member constituencies. Participation of young persons in democratic life and decision-making processes is also a priority. This is even truer in a country like Haiti with a low average age and where the new institutions will need to take crucial choices for the country’s future; it is therefore of the utmost importance that the various sectors of the population be represented as much as possible. More participation of women and young people as voters, but also as candidates and members of elected bodies, was raised as a priority by the interlocutors met in Washington.