On 17 January 2008, the Government and the World Bank (WB) signed the Grant Agreement for the Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) on Capacity building support to implement the Integrated Planning System (IPS).  The MDTF has a current total value of 5.14 million Euros and has been co-financed by: the UK Government through DfID (2,21 million Euros), the Government of the Netherlands, (1 million Euros), the European Commission (1 million Euros), the Austrian Development Corporation, (500,000 Euros), the Government of Sweden through Sida, (430,000 Euros). Two other donors will be contributing in the coming months: the Government of Italy (272,000 Euros) and the Government of Switzerland (440,000 Euros).  So the total amount of the MDTF will be: 5.85 million Euros. The programme will be implemented over a period of three years.
The United Nations Development Programme has financed, with support from a number of other development partners, the preliminary work for the creation of the Trust Fund, through an IPS Immediate Needs Programme to the value of approximately 1 million USD.