Funds are made available as grants or on highly concessional lending terms. About a fifth of Program funding was to be provided from the RFT . It also provides funds for the administration of the RFT itself and for the Program by the World Bank, for donor coordination and for the International Advisory Group. Brazil provides counterpart funds from the federal an state budgets. In addition, government agencies in Brazil make available their own infrastructure and personnel to carry out projects.
Local communities make contributions, mostly in the form of labor and materials.
Over time, donors have pledged additional resources for the Pilot Program. Germany is the largest donor of the Program, followed by the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. Click here for a table that shows the contributions by country, into the RFT and for individual projects.