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<p>In Autumn 2020, the ICLRD will work closely with the Irish Central Border Area Network (<a href="http://icban.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="ICBAN (opens in a new tab)">ICBAN</a>) in finalising the text of ‘The Framework of Regional Priorities for the Irish Central Border Region, 2021–2028’.  The Irish border region is meeting some of its greatest challenges for a generation: the Covid-19 pandemic, climate disruption, demographic change, a transition in the role and function of our towns and villages and, notably, the exit of the UK from the European Union (EU).  </p>
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<p>Working in collaboration with the International Centre for Local and Regional Development (ICLRD), ICBAN is taking stock of its regional assets, challenges and opportunities, and, at the mid-way point in the timeframe of the RSF, is seeking to identify new and emerging strategic regional priorities for the Central Border Region – as called for during the Border Animator progamme. </p>
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<p><a href="http://dev.iclrd.org/iclrd2/resources-library/spatial-planning-and-regional-development/">Read more here</a></p>
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