Throughput funding is ‘based on the functions or tasks that have to be undertaken or developed. It is not based on needs, but rather on the services provided by a school, municipality or region’. Finances are allocated on the condition that particular services will be developed or maintained. ‘Schools, municipalities or regions are equally treated: funds are based on total enrolment or on other population indicators’. Of course, certain output conditions can be included in this model, but funding itself is not based on outputs (or inputs) (Meijer, 1999, p. 152).