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 | | In this way, the IRN and its member networks and organisations are seeking to improve the ‘evidence’ on which regional, national and international policies impacting rural communities everywhere it is based, and in giving rural people a stronger ‘voice’ in related policy making debates. |
 | | We share a belief that the Millennium Development Goals cannot be reached without greater attention being given by all concerned to the improvement of education, health and incomes in rural areas. |
 | | The main outcomes of IRN involvement in activities are peer-group learning, sharing of best practice and innovative ideas, generation of new ideas, open-ness to new ways of doing things, improved cross-disciplinary thinking (community development, health, education, etc), better international understanding and solidarity on |
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