Following the successof the pilots the Scottish Executive provided £5.4 million in funding to roll outDialogue Youth across all 32 local authority areas by December 2005.We also fund the RuralCommunity Gateway website which is designed to foster dialogue between serviceproviders by providing better access to information for those living andworking in rural communities and encouraging the sharing of good practiceboth locally and across rural Scotland.In addition, through the ScottishRural Partnership Fund, we fund strategic Local Rural Partnerships, usuallycovering a local authority area, for a maximum of three years to engage localgovernment agencies and the voluntary and private sectors to plan...