FINANCIAL RESOURCES Financial resources are determined based on the action plan that accompanies this strategy (Appendix 1), pursuant to the MTBP cost for 2015-2017. Also, other financial resources have been taken into consideration, such as, the IPA funds, donations or grants which are used to cover the financial gaps. The action plan lists the activities that will be undertaken to implement the above programmes, the responsible institutions, deadlines, costs for each activity and programme, as well as the financial resources. Also, the Regional Development Fund will be a supplementary mechanism that will aim at the realization of the digital divergence minimization between different regions and cities. This instrument will aim to improve the service quality delivered to the citizens, as well as the life improvement through the technological developments. 40 The determination of ISSDA financial needs was carried out through the process of the necessary potencial evaluation cost from each institution that bears the main responsibility in the implementation of the foreseen activities. The necessary evaluated funds for the implementation of ISSDA during the period of 2015 - 2017 are foreseen to be at the range of 29.2 billion ALL or 240.5 milion Euro. It must be emphasized that the need for financing the strategy implementation has been calculated for the activities for the period of 2015-2017. In the mean time, the calculation of the needs for the implementation of activities for the period of 2017-2020 will be determined in 2017, time this when the mid-term strategy implementation evaluation will be carried out. MTBP Donors Others ALL 22 235 164 842 1 452 398 678 5 122 505 695 Euro 158 822 606 10 374 276 36 589 326