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Indicator Development - SPICED

The document discusses the SPICED criteria for developing indicators to measure development projects. The six criteria are that indicators should be: 1) subjective and consider unique insights, 2) participatory and developed with beneficiaries, 3) interpreted and communicable to various stakeholders, 4) cross-checked by comparing different indicators, informants, and methods, 5) empowering by allowing critical reflection, and 6) diverse and disaggregated to seek different perspectives, especially between men and women.

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Indicator Development - SPICED

The document discusses the SPICED criteria for developing indicators to measure development projects. The six criteria are that indicators should be: 1) subjective and consider unique insights, 2) participatory and developed with beneficiaries, 3) interpreted and communicable to various stakeholders, 4) cross-checked by comparing different indicators, informants, and methods, 5) empowering by allowing critical reflection, and 6) diverse and disaggregated to seek different perspectives, especially between men and women.

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Use of Indicators

SPICED Criterion
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1. Subjective 2. Participatory
Indicators should consider the special position Indicators should be developed together
or experience of informants that gives them with those best placed to assess them. This
unique insights. In this sense, what may be means involving a project's ultimate
seen by others as 'anecdotal' becomes critical beneficiaries, but it can also mean involving
data because of the source's value. local staff and other stakeholders.

3. Interpreted and Communicable 4. Cross-checked and Compared


Locally defined indicators may not mean The validity of assessment needs to be
much to other stakeholders, so they often cross-checked, by comparing different
need to be explained. indicators and progress, and by using
different informants, methods, and
researchers.

5. Empowering 6. Diverse and Disaggregated


The process of setting and assessing There should be a deliberate effort to seek out
indicators should be empowering in itself different disaggregated indicators from a range of
and allow groups and individuals to reflect groups, especially men and women. This is to be
critically on their changing situation. recorded in such a way that these differences can
be assessed over time.

Source: Roche, C. 1999. Impact Assessment for Development Agencies: Learning to Value Change. Oxfam GB. https://bit.ly/33rZJMA

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