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Early in the 2000s’ the civil society organisations worked on a document called "The Social Consensus on Migration", which was developed by two non-governmental organizations --the Spanish Committee for the Aid of Refugees (CEAR) and Caritas Española-- together with the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP). In this text, codevelopment was defined as "a line of work that favours the active participation of migrants in their commitment for the development of their home communities".
In the last five years, academic research on codevelopment increased, as a result of the strong immigration process experienced by the Spanish society from 2000 onwards (which represented nearly 80% of Spain’s demographic growth). A website devoted to codevelopment, with many useful resources and discussions papers, was set up by CIDEAL, a development cooperation think tank. Many universities decided to open up new learning courses on the matter, following the steps of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Several doctoral thesis are currently being carried out, focusing diverse aspects of codevelopment, including the impact of migration and remittances in the sending countries, mainly Ecuador, Colombia and Morocco. Migrants living in Spain remitted nearly EURO 10 thousands millions, in 2007 (while the overall Spanish OAD summed only half of this amount).
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