Professionalization Archives

Evaluation Professionalisation In Action- Pilot Experiences of the EES VEPR

by editor editor | Sep 2, 2016 | Blog

Riitta Oksanen is the President of the EES. She works as a senior advisor at the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Development Evaluation Unit. In this post Riitta discusses a new EES initiative – the ‘Voluntary Evaluator Peer Review’ (VEPR) process to...

The EES Professionalization Agenda: Myths and Realities

by editor editor | Oct 12, 2015 | Blog

There is no ‘immaculate conception’ in the birth of a profession. Professionalization is driven by the collective exertions of a cohesive occupational group competing in the public arena. Thus, medicine triumphed over homeopathy. Psychiatry took over the terrain of...