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SPICED criteria give particular emphasis to participatory approaches:
• Subjective in that stakeholders are uniquely placed to offer insights based on their
experience
• Participatory, involving the project or affected stakeholders
• Interpreted or explained to provide an understanding of the local context in which they
occur
• Cross-checked against other indicators, stakeholders and methods
• Empowering to affected groups
• Diverse in nature and measured from a variety of stakeholder groups
CREAM criteria focus on managing for development results:
• Clear: Precise and unambiguous
• Relevant: appropriate to the subject at hand
• Economic: available at a reasonable cost
• Adequate: provide a sufficient basis to assess performance
• Monitorable: amenable to independent validation
The project proponent should be sensible and practical in applying these criteria. No one indicator
will satisfy all criteria equally well. In practice there can also be tension between the participatory,
subjective character of the SPICED indicator approach and the emphasis on objective measuring in
the SMART approach, requiring some reconciliation between the approaches.
Ultimately, the choice of indicator is determined through an assessment of validity and practicality.
The selection of indicators is an iterative process, building on consultations between project
developers, stakeholders and partners (UNDP, 2002). The process of selecting an indicator takes
several steps including brainstorming ideas, assessing each one, and narrowing the list down to
produce an indicator monitoring plan. Table T27 summarizes a number of key criteria for evaluating
each of the indicators selected.
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