2015
Ms Yaprak Baltacioğlu, Secretary of the Treasury Board of Canada, has responded to the CES letter inviting the Government of Canada to "work with CES to support federal evaluators in obtaining the Credentialed Evaluator designation". Ms Baltacioğlu "emphasized the importance of having an effective evaluation function to support government decisions". She indicated that the Treasury Board Secretariat is "interested in exploring further measures that would increase the expertise of federal evaluators", " to learn more about the Canadian Evaluation Society's (CES-'s) professional designation program and to discuss the possibilities for the CES to collaborate in advancing the expertise of the federal evaluation community". As suggested by Ms Baltacioğlu, we will initiate the discussion with Mr. Brian Pagan, Assistant Secretary of the Expenditure Management Sector, in the weeks to come.
If you have views on this or if you want to propose a course of action, feel free to contact me at [email protected].
Benoît Gauthier, CES president
Comments
CE Designation
The CE designation is valuable
It is CES' position that the CE is a valuable and worthwhile designation, that it is clearly positioned in CES' communications as a demonstration of education and experience required by the CES to be a competent evaluator, and that we are working towards its recognition by all employers and buyers of evaluation services. [new paragraph]
I understand your position on the CE designation. Well established professionals may not benefit the most from it. But CES must take the long view of contributing to the establishment of a profession of evaluator for generations to come. One of the tools (and there are others) toward that goal is this designation that aims to provide some assurance to users of evaluations that the person conducting the work has training and experience to do it competently. It clearly does not mean that the one without the designation cannot perform competent evaluation work -- CES has made its position on that abundantly clear. [new paragraph]
That said, CES will gladly review your application for the CE designation if you elect to submit one.