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S: http://www.toolkitsportdevelopment.org/html/topic_03DF8A69-0DAC-47D5-8A14-1E1833901BFE_BBA5D8DC-5C40-4F9C-A6A4-0268098134D7_1.htm (last access: 25 April 2013); http://web.undp.org/evaluation/handbook/ch2-4.html (last access: 2 September 2014).

N: SMART criteria were originally proposed as a management tool for project and program managers to set goals and objectives (Doran 1981 and others), but these days the SMART criteria have been well accepted in the field of monitoring and evaluation.
Many development agencies and funds support the use of SMART principles as a way to manage M&E, and have made this explicit within their institutional evaluation policies or guidelines. The GEF (2010), for example, references SMART principles in its institutional guidelines for M&E. And in a review of the SIDA adaptation portfolio, the authors propose that all indicators in future project documents have to be guided by SMART principles (SIDA 2013). In essence, SMART principles have become an engrained, common best practice approach in developing indicators for monitoring and evaluation.

S: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141022071803-18927814-a-good-start-with-s-m-a-r-t-indicators (last access: 10 October 2015)

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