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On twenty fifth of June two thousand and two the Executive launched its community regeneration statement, Better Communities in Scotland and Closing the Gap which sets out how the Executive intends to turn around deprived communities and create a better life for those living in them. While there have been many successful programmes in Scotland, the statement signals a number of important shifts in our approach to regeneration. These are, the Executive intends moving away from funding isolated, project-based regeneration initiatives, which have little impact. The Executive will in future place regeneration within the wider strategic framework, which the community planning process provides. This will result in more cohesion between national, regional and local priorities, better targetting of resources, better quality of services in deprived areas, and more effective community involvement as a consequence of our new policy approach, the Executive intends migrating Social Inclusion Partnerships to community planning partnership funding and management over the next three to four years the Executive will place a higher priority on providing individuals and communities with the skills and confidence necessary to take advantage of opportunities and to play a full part in the life of their communities,the Executive will put in place a robust monitoring and evaluation framework that will allow us to measure progress much more efficiently than we have done in the past. Together these proposals will make a significant contribution to closing the gap between deprived communities and the rest of Scotland.