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'''Codevelopment''' is a trend of thought and a development strategy in [[development studies]]
which considers [[migrants]] to be a developing factor for their countries of origin.
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== Codevelopment in Spain ==
Since the late nineties, codevelopment has been the subject of postgraduate studies, specialist courses, discussions and forums among multiple stakeholders, as well as calls for project grants by some local and regional administrations, beginning with the Municipality of Madrid. These authorities quickly became aware of the local impact of the presence of new immigrant communities, the importance of the links that bind them with their communities of origin, and the desirability of relating them in any future action to support the policies of cooperation. Codevelopment policies had a much stronger presence and development in the regional and local levels.
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During 2005 there has been progress in the search for a consensus on competences and actors. A codevelopment line was mainstreamed in the Master Plans on Development Cooperation, and two years later, also in the new Integration Plan, called Strategic Plan on Citizenship and Integration 2007-2010, which was finally implemented in 2007, by the Ministry of Social Affairs.
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
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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* [http://europa.eu.int/council/off/conclu/oct99/oct99_en.htm Tampere Council]
* [http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-africa_democracy/migration_development_4077.jsp Opendemocracy article on the relation between development and disporas]
*[http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization/diasporas_4096.jsp
* CODEVELOPMENT IN SPAIN External links
* Codesarrollo CIDEAL [http://www.codesarrollo-cideal.org]
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[[Category:Diasporas]]
[[Category:Development studies]]
[[es:Codesarrollo]]
[[fr:Codéveloppement]]
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