recovery and longer-term reconstruction of Haiti . Once the strategy is set , a donors ' conference to secure funding would take place . Clinton told reporters traveling with her to the meeting that the donors ' conference would take place in `` the next 30 to 60 days . '' `` There 's a tremendous desire to help , but we 've got to create the mechanisms so that it can be done effectively , and we 've got to get the Haitian government 's capacity to lead put together , '' she said . Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told the meeting 's attendees that the challenge is enormous . Interactive map : Where to find aid `` It is not an exaggeration to say that 10 years of hard work awaits the world in Haiti , '' he said , according to CNN affiliate CTV , a Canadian television network . He noted the initial outpouring of money and relief aid for Haiti , which he called generous in the face of human catastrophe . `` The difficulty we face , then , is not one of concern but rather one of coordination , '' Harper said
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and foreign ministers from more than a dozen countries met Monday to discuss how to rebuild Haiti after the devastating January 12 earthquake . Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive also attended the one-day meeting of the Friends of Haiti group of nations in Montreal , Quebec . The United Nations , International Monetary Fund , World Bank and European Union also sent representatives , according to Canada 's Foreign Ministry . In Haiti , desperate residents of Port-au-Prince , the capital , waited for two hours in lines around the heavily damaged Presidential Palace to get their first relief supplies , bags of rice or beans . U.N. troops brandishing automatic weapons kept order . Any spilled food prompted fast scavenging by those hanging around the distribution point . One woman , Via Maria Rosile , took off her shirt to collect a small pile of dropped beans . Watch images of a shattered palace `` I am very unhappy , '' Rosile said . `` So far , until now we have received nothing . '' The aim of the Montreal meeting is to develop a strategy for early