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Institutional GBA plus capacity
At Employment and Social Development Canada, each Assistant Deputy Minister is accountable for supporting the application of gender-based analysis plus (GBA plus) within their area of responsibility. Each branch and Region has analysts who perform GBA plus in their policy, program and service proposals. In addition, a number of branches have dedicated resources with specific accountability for supporting GBA plus. The department also has 2 GBA plus co-champions who provide leadership in the promotion and implementation of GBA plus.
A departmental GBA plus Centre of Expertise exists to oversee the implementation of GBA plus in the department and to provide internal advice. The Centre of Expertise currently has 5.5 full-time equivalents, and is responsible for:
- reviewing, assessing and providing early and ongoing guidance on all Cabinet documents
- developing and disseminating GBA plus tools, resources and guidance documents and organizing learning and training events to further GBA plus capacity within the department
- collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to contribute to the advancement of GBA plus across the public service
- ensuring compliance of initiatives, policies and programs with the Gender Results Framework, as well as the Gender Budgeting Act
- encouraging ongoing monitoring and evaluation of GBA plus analyses to highlight successes and best practices, as well as to identify gaps and new priorities
The Centre of Expertise is currently undertaking several initiatives to advance GBA plus capacity in the department. This includes:
- disseminating and piloting a Black-centric lens. This tool will be part of the GBA plus process to give targeted attention to Black Canadian communities. The Black-centric lens will help policy analysts take the history, needs and lived experiences of Black Canadian communities into account when doing their work. This will inform the design or modification of the department's programs, policies and services
- continuing a GBA plus Community of Practice. This forum allows departmental employees to share best practices and learn new skills related to GBA plus. As a result, employees are better equipped to apply it to their work
- maintaining an evergreen official languages lens. This will help cabinet document drafters consider the specific needs of official language minority communities when designing or modifying the department’s programs, policies and services
In addition to the Centre of Expertise, the department’s Skills and Employment Branch has a dedicated GBA plus hub with 4 full-time employees. The hub was created with funding received in Budget 2019 to lead the implementation of a GBA plus strategy. It supports the Branch’s application of GBA plus in skills and labour market programming. The hub focuses on 2 key areas:
- capacity building, through the implementation of training, learning and awareness activities for staff working on skills and labour market programming. This will ensure Skills and Employment Branch programs have a strong GBA plus analytical capacity. Analysts will be able to incorporate robust GBA plus in all stages of the development, implementation, and continual improvement of skills programs
- knowledge and data investments, through providing skills programs with quantitative and qualitative data and tools to measure, monitor and improve program outcomes for Canadians. This includes the development and the implementation of a data collection plan to identify and address knowledge and data gaps in order to improve and better integrate GBA plus data throughout the policy-to-service continuum
- policy guidance and support, through the provision of assistance and tools for the application of GBA plus throughout the policy-to-service continuum, including policy development, program design, service delivery, oversight, and evaluation
Highlights of GBA plus results reporting capacity by program
This section covers each program in Employment and Social Development Canada’s program inventory. For each program, it indicates:
- whether the program collects sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity
- when it does so, notable initiatives to expand the program’s capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity
- when it does not, actions being taken to enable future monitoring or reporting of the program’s impacts by gender and diversity
For ease of reference, programs are grouped under the core responsibility they are associated with, where they are listed alphabetically.
Core responsibility 1: Social Development
Accessible Canada Initiative
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The Accessible Canada Partnerships stream under the Social Development Partnerships Program – Disability component (SDPP-D) will collect GBA plus related data from the final activity reports of funding recipients. Recipient organizations will be required to report on the number and types of groups involved in their projects, including diverse groups with intersectional identities. Such groups include persons with a disability who also identify with official language minority communities, LGBTQ2+ persons and groups, Indigenous, and minority communities including Black and other visible minority groups.
Black-led Philanthropic Endowment Fund
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
It is expected that the recipient will collect data on number of Black women, girls and members of the LGBTQ2+ community served by funded projects.
Canadian Benefit for Parents of Young Victims of Crime
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
Given the nature of the program, no data is collected on benefit claimants in order to protect their privacy.
Early Learning and Child Care
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
Provinces and territories which receive transfer payments are responsible for the delivery of programs and services, per their unique needs. Provinces and territories report annually on the impact of the federal investments (which could include GBA+ components, such as the number of inclusive spaces supported by federal funding). However, the program does not require the collection of sufficiently disaggregated data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
Moving forward, initiatives such as support projects that help fill knowledge gaps by collecting and analyzing disaggregated GBA plus data pertaining to vulnerable population groups.
Enabling Accessibility Fund
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The Enabling Accessibility Fund (EAF) program will continue to collect GBA+ related data from the final activity reports of grant funding recipients.
Since fiscal year 2021 to 2022, the program collects data on gender and diversity for EAF projects. The applicants are required to select the groups their proposed project will target, such as: children (0-15); youth (16-25); adults (26-64); seniors (65+); Indigenous people (First Nations, Inuit, Métis); visible minorities (Arab, Black, Japanese, etc.); women; LGBTQ2+; veterans; disabilities type (mobility, visual; hearing, etc.). Data are then analyzed to determine program trends relative to GBA+. This approach will continue in future years, which will expand the program’s capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity.
Indigenous Early Learning Child Care Transformation Initiative
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The department is in the process of co-developing an Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care results framework with First Nations, Inuit and Métis partners. Once developed and implemented, this framework will enable future monitoring or reporting of the program’s impacts by gender and diversity.
Investment in child care is an effective policy mechanism with strong socioeconomic and gendered impacts. Any new GBA plus approaches will be designed with and guided by Indigenous peoples. ESDC will discuss with First Nations, Inuit and Métis partners what disaggregated indicators might be useful and realistic to collect as work proceeds to improve collection of data on Indigenous ELCC, co-develop results frameworks and expand program indicators.
New Horizons for Seniors Program
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The New Horizons for Seniors Program collects data from funded organizations on their projects’ impact and their target of diverse seniors. These include several variables such as age, gender, geographic location, disability status, Indigenous status, ethnicity, immigration status and identification with LGBTQ2+. The program will continue to use this data in future years to evaluate its impact on seniors by gender and diversity.
Social Development Partnerships Program – Children and Families
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The Social Development Partnerships Program - Children and Families component will continue to collect data from funded organizations in future years on their projects’ impact and target beneficiaries. This information will expand the program’s capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity, and other intersecting factors. These may include ethnicity, geographic location, Indigenous status, immigration status and identification with LGBTQ2+. The Children and Families component will also get additional data on the gender, age, sexual orientation, geography and other identity factors (such as language, education, economic status, racialization and ethnicity) that will enable GBA plus analysis of project beneficiaries. The program is also working with Statistics Canada to get disaggregated data in order to support GBA plus analysis.
In 2023 to 2024, the Children and Families component will also continue to revise its final reporting tool (used by funded recipients to submit their final reports upon completion of their projects) to ensure relevant provisions for effective GBA plus analysis.
Social Development Partnerships Program – Disability
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The Social Development Partnerships Program – Disability component will continue to collect data from funded organizations in future years. This information will expand the program’s capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity, and other intersecting factors. These may include ethnicity, geographic location, Indigenous status, immigration status and identification with LGBTQ2+.
The Disability component does not provide direct services or benefits to individual Canadians. No data is collected about the organizations or individuals that may benefit from projects funded by the program.
Social Innovation and Social Finance Strategy
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
Both components of the strategy also have plans to expand their capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity.
The Investment Readiness Program put in place a new GBA plus data collection plan for 2023 to 2024. The program will collect data on the diversity of social purpose organizations’ (SPO) leadership and board members, the populations the SPO is mandated to serve and the populations they serve. It will also collect data on the amount of funding provided to SPOs led by, serving, and mandated to serve GBA plus populations. A particular focus will be placed on women, Indigenous people, Black Canadians and other racialized communities, persons with disabilities, 2SLGBTQ2IA+ communities, and other equity-deserving communities. The program will use this data to monitor its commitment to supporting diverse organizations to build their investment readiness capacity. It will demonstrate if there are:
- gaps in accessing the program
- a difference in impacts and results for SPOs led by, serving, and mandated to serve GBA plus groups
It will also be used to support future policy decisions related to the Investment Readiness Program.
The Social Finance Fund’s GBA plus data collection plan is being finalized and will be implemented in collaboration with social finance wholesalers (in other words, funding recipients). Funding agreements will contain a reporting framework that will require wholesalers to collect disaggregated data from social finance intermediaries (SFIs) and SPOs accessing Social Finance Fund investments and funding. The program will collect data on the diversity of wholesalers’, SFIs’, and SPOs’ leadership (both management and board members) as well as on the populations the SFIs and SPOs are mandated to, and do, serve. This information will enable the program to monitor and ensure that funds reach a diversity of organizations and beneficiary populations.
Strategic Engagement and Research Program
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The Strategic Engagement and Research Program supports external organizations to conduct research and research-related events. The department will ensure the GBA plus components and considerations are included in research and research-related events, and that projects supported include a GBA plus lens where possible. The department will also continue to advocate for, and request, a gender-disaggregated approach to research, and that research take GBA plus into consideration. Project proposals include questions on how the proposed research and research-related events will take into account intersecting factors, including gender, age, disability issues, income, education, language, geography, race, etc.
Sustainable Development Goals Funding Program
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The Sustainable Development Goals Funding Program collects data from funded organizations on their projects’ results and, when applicable, their target participants.
In fiscal year 2023 to 2024, the program plans to enhance its data collection method to better measure socio-demographic variables. This will include improving the survey for funding recipients to better capture important data on demographic variables to measure and report on impacts by gender and diversity.
The new survey version will be used until the end of fiscal year 2024 to 2025. It will be answered by organizations that receive grants and contributions which are funded for a period longer than 3 years.
Core responsibility 2: Pensions and Benefits
Canada Disability Savings Program
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The Canada Disability Savings Program (CDSP) is working to broaden and enhance the availability of gender and sociodemographic information it can use to conduct GBA plus. The program has been working to identify trends related to eligible individuals who do not have a Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP). It strives to examine intersectional factors (for example, age, gender, ethnicity, indigeneity, education, place of residence, household income) to identify potential barriers to opening a RDSP. Efforts are being made to acquire new data by establishing linkages with other data sets (such as Census, T1 tax data, etc.). This information will inform program activities for the 2023 to 2024 fiscal year and increase uptake. Increasing uptake among diverse and underserved populations will enhance the financial security of persons with disabilities.
Canada Pension Plan
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The program is seeking to increase the amount of data available for program review and evaluation purposes by accessing income tax data collected by the Canada Revenue Agency, as was announced in Budget 2022. These data will allow ESDC to perform better evidence-based policy development, including GBA plus analysis, especially pertaining to retirement and retirement preparedness of marginalized groups, such as CPP survivors, disability pension recipients, and low-income seniors. It will help develop CPP modernizations, ensuring that the plan continues to adapt to the changing needs of Canadians while also being responsive to socio-economic realities facing marginalized groups.
Old Age Security
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
Research and data analysis for GBA plus purposes, based on Old Age Security administrative data and, where applicable, Statistics Canada survey data, will continue to be an integral to assess the impacts of potential policy measures on eligible seniors and near-seniors based on socio-economic factors such as gender, benefit type, age, place of residence and income level, and, where applicable, marital status. This remains a critical part of the policy development process for the OAS program. That said, given that the department no longer collects gender information on the OAS application, conducting thorough GBA plus analysis may become challenging in the future.
Core responsibility 3: Learning, Skills Development and Employment
Canada Education Savings Program
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The Canada Education Savings Program (CESP) currently collects sex data (male vs. female) of its beneficiaries on its application form for the education savings incentives. The program is preparing to implement the collection of gender instead of sex. This will include a third non-binary gender option, to align with overall government principles related to the modernization of sex and gender information practices. Implementation is aimed for late 2023.
The department continues to provide CESP administrative data to Statistics Canada for inclusion on its Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP). This allows it to be linked to additional datasets, including Census data and Canada Revenue Agency tax data, expanding its capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity. The program plans to update the profiles of Canada Education Savings Grant and Canada Learning Bond beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries once the 2021 Census is made available on the ELMLP. This will provide a better understanding of how different populations benefit from the program.
Canada Emergency Response Benefit
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
Given that this was a temporary program which has concluded, there are no plans to enhance data collection for the future.
Canada Recovery Benefits
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
Given that this was a temporary program which concluded on October 23, 2021 (May 7, 2022 for the Canada Recovery Sickness and Caregiving Benefits), there are no plans to enhance data collection for the future.
Canada Service Corps
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The program has recently increased the collection of demographic data from youth participating in service opportunities with recipient organizations. With this new method, organizations provide more detailed demographic data outlining which underserved populations are being engaged. The data collected allows youth to indicate their gender, if they identify as Indigenous, part of a racialized group, have a disability, are part of an official language minority, are a newcomer to Canada, or from a rural or remote area. The Canada Service Corps program also receives contact information from consenting youth to send out surveys for further analysis on GBA plus related information. The program will analyze the data to determine if the target population is being reached and is participating in the program as intended. The program has also launched a new diversity micro-grant stream. In this stream, organizations must have at least 50% leadership that represents the youth they are serving to be eligible for funding. Outcomes from this stream will be compared against the micro-grant stream, to assess whether organizations in the diversity stream are able to reach Indigenous and under-served youth in different ways.
Canada Student Financial Assistance Program and Canada Apprentice Loan
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The Canada Student Financial Assistance (CSFA) Program continues its work on combining administrative data with other sources of information. The program is currently undertaking analyses on barriers faced by clients from equity seeking groups in attaining post-secondary education. These groups include Indigenous, Black, and other racialized groups, LGBTQ2+, and immigrant students. This work will allow the CSFA Program to conduct more intersectional analysis and better understand its client population.
Canada Worker Lockdown Benefit
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
Given that this was a temporary program which concluded May 7, 2022, there are no plans to enhance data collection for the future.
Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy
The design of the Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy includes components aimed at supporting diversity, accessibility and inclusion of equity-deserving groups in the skilled trades. These groups include youth, women, persons with disabilities, Indigenous people, members of LGBTQ2+ communities, racialized communities, and newcomers. The strategy includes providing additional supports to employers that hire apprentices from equity-deserving groups known to face barriers to careers in the skilled trades, and consideration of linguistic diversity, official languages and official language minority communities.
The program will collate key performance indicator data reported in aggregate under funding agreements in an annual report. This enables the program to track the number and percentage of program participants who are women, racialized individuals/communities, persons with disabilities, Indigenous people, and newcomers. It is important to note that this data is collected on a voluntary basis, and it is not possible for the program to report on participant intersectionality between equity-deserving groups. Evaluations on existing apprenticeship initiatives are expected to inform recommendations on how to improve GBA plus data collection.
Community Workforce Development Program
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The Community Workforce Development Program will collect disaggregated data by demographic group, geographic and sector-based variables. Data will be collected through quarterly and annual reports from funding recipients. The department will use the data collected to monitor results achieved, using GBA plus and intersectional analysis. Data will also allow the program to confirm that a minimum of 75% of project participants belong to one or more underrepresented groups in the labour market.
Employment Insurance
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The program will continue to perform trend analysis of EI claims and benefits information by age and gender. The program will also continue to conduct analysis using sociodemographic variables. The performance is monitored annually through the EI Monitoring and Assessment report.
The program continues to use EI administrative data, Statistics Canada survey data and Canada Revenue Agency tax data to inform, monitor, and assess the program. Such efforts may allow the program to increase or improve the accessibility of EI to Canadians.
Enabling Fund for Official Language Minority Communities
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The Enabling Fund for Official Language Minority Communities (EF-OLMC) will collect GBA plus data through an annual results reporting survey that asks funding recipients to provide demographic information on their participants to measure the GBA plus impacts. The demographic information includes details on rates of project participants with respect to racialized populations, persons with disabilities, newcomers, gender and age.
The EF-OLMC has a new robust GBA plus strategy, and collects significant intersectional data from funding recipients to ensure equitable access to services for OLMCs’ racialized population, especially women. The fund acknowledges that the federal government new francophone immigration strategy - with the goals of increasing francophone immigration, supporting the integration and retention of French-speaking newcomers and building the capacity of French-speaking communities outside Quebec – increases significantly the proportion of French-speaking Black Canadians newcomers in OLMCs.
Foreign Credential Recognition Program
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
In 2021 to 2022, the program implemented a new data collection method for foreign credential recognition employment support projects. This new data collection method will track the number of skilled newcomers receiving employment supports that are women, racialized, and persons with disabilities. This will expand the program’s capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity.
Future Skills
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The Future Skills Centre will collect data from the participants of innovation projects through quarterly activity reports. This data will be used to conduct a GBA plus analysis on the effectiveness of each project. It will also allow the Centre to consolidate evidence on what works for whom and under which conditions. As well, it will contribute to overall program evaluation.
Indigenous Skills and Employment Training Program
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The program will continue to collect GBA plus data on an ongoing basis for all program participants. Data collected will be disaggregated by Indigenous distinction: First Nations, Inuit, Métis and urban/unaffiliated. This will expand the program’s capacity to report on impacts in support of advancing reconciliation and reducing skills and employment gaps between Indigenous people and non-Indigenous Canadians. In addition, input will also be sought from Indigenous partners on gender and diversity in an Indigenous reconciliation and self-determination context.
Job Bank
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
Job Bank plans to expand the application of the GBA plus approach into its activities, and the monitoring of its gender and diversity impact. In order to improve the services provided by Job Bank, the program is working towards identifying the barriers faced by its users throughout the job search process through a survey/research. This research will primarily rely on Job Bank users.
When relevant, Job Bank will align its data collection with that of the skills and labour market programming GBA plus Hub dictionary and standards. Data enhancement will contribute to improving labour market information access for underrepresented groups and equity-deserving groups using Job Bank services.
Labour Market Development Agreements
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The Labour Market Development Agreements were strengthened to improve performance measurement to report to Canadians in meaningful ways about the impact of programs and services. The data collected will allow governments to support the continuous improvement of programs and services and ensure that investments are producing concrete results for Canadians, such as increased income and sustainable employment.
Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The Opportunities Fund will collect data on gender, age, type of disability, visible minority, new immigrant and Aboriginal status.
Sectoral Workforce Solutions Program
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The program developed a new data collection method template for Sectoral Workforce Solutions Program funding agreements. This represents a key improvement in data collection. This data collection method is expected to allow the program to track the number and percentage of program participants who are women, racialized Canadians, persons with disabilities, Indigenous, and newcomers (immigrants and permanent residents, less than 5 year) who experience positive short-, medium- and long term outcomes.
Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship (Red Seal Program)
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
No plan to collect further data in 2023 to 2024 since provinces and territories are responsible for implementation of the Red Seal Program within each jurisdiction.
The Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship (Red Seal) Program is a partnership between the federal government, the provinces and territories (who are responsible for apprenticeship training and trade certification in their jurisdictions), and industry, to develop national standards and examinations for each of the designated Red Seal trades. The department sponsors the secretariat services for the Canadian Council of Directors of Apprenticeship, which is responsible for the oversight of the Red Seal Program.
Skills and Partnership Fund
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The program will review and adjust its GBA plus data collection plan, as appropriate, as the performance measurement strategy is updated.
Skills for Success
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The Skills for Success program will collect and report on GBA plus through its annual results reporting exercise that asks funding recipients to provide demographic information on their training participants to measure the GBA plus impacts. The program will collect data on identity factors, such as gender, age, Indigenous status, race, disability status, and newcomers status. This information will inform future policy and program decisions to address targeted needs for specific population groups.
The Women’s Employment Readiness (WER) pilot program has a robust GBA plus framework, collecting significant intersectional data from funded recipients on a participant-by-participant basis, rather than collecting just aggregate data. Funded recipients will collect information on more than 20 identity factors, in addition to tracking and measuring change in foundational and transferable skills levels. The pilot program was designed this way since its objective is to determine how to improve access to skills and employment training for women who face multiple barriers. An evaluation of the pilot program will be conducted by a third-party evaluator. Results of the evaluation will be used to inform systemic changes to improve access to skills and employment training for women, ultimately improving their employment outcomes.
Student Work Placement Program
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
Through the existing performance measurement for the agreements, GBA plus data is collected on an ongoing basis for all participants in programming. Over time, this will expand the program’s capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity.
Supports for Student Learning
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
By providing unique learning and wrap-around supports for youth, the Supports for Student Learning Program (SSLP) aims to bridge gaps in educational attainment and to address systemic inequities. Funded projects are tailored to support the needs of students who may face greater barriers to education, including Indigenous students, racialized students, students living with disabilities, students from low-income households, students identifying as 2-spirited, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning, among others.
Initiatives under the SSLP provide funding to youth-serving organizations that deliver projects and initiatives. These projects collect data and information based on the nature of their funding agreements and the organization’s capacity. Standard reporting requirements will be introduced for new and existing projects and allow for the SSLP to gather aggregate data from organizations including the collection of disaggregated data by sub-populations (for example, Indigenous students, students with a disability, students from low-income households, etc.) that are at increased risk of educational disengagement. These changes will expand the program’s capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity. Further, the collection of this information over time will help to examine the impact of the program on different subpopulations
For the Global Skills Opportunity (GSO), the 2 funding recipients who deliver the GSO will collect some sociodemographic information including gender-based data, Indigenous identity, and data on students with a disability and students from low-income families. The collection of this data is important as it impacts the eligibility and direction of funding to specific students.
Moving forward, the SSLP is conducting internal work to build an evidence-based approach in support of ongoing and improved implementation. Initiatives underway include:
- an impact measurement strategy to address consistency in data collection across SSLP-funded projects
- a data collection and reporting plan to increase SSLP’s collection of disaggregated data, and to conduct GBA plus analyses of funded projects
- a pilot ‘pre-post’ survey among a small sample of youth who are participating in select SSLP-funded programs, and exploring, for example, how the effects of the SSLP vary based on sociodemographic characteristics and their intersections (in other words, GBA plus)
- an approach to collect, through Statistics Canada datasets, educational and employment data disaggregated by gender and other sociodemographic data where possible (and for age groups: 15-19, 20-24 and 25-29)
Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The department maintains data systems, including the Integrity Case Management System and Foreign Worker System, which enable comprehensive and reliable monitoring and reporting of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program’s usage and outcomes. Program and policy options are modelled using Temporary Foreign Worker Program data and Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) work permit data.
The department recognizes the importance of applying a gender-based analysis plus lens, and is exploring opportunities to collect and integrate more robust gender-based analysis plus data into program monitoring and reporting. Over the coming year, this includes launching a survey of temporary foreign workers. The main objective of this survey is to evaluate whether organizations funded through the Migrant Worker Support (MWS) program are helping migrant workers to understand and exercise their rights while in Canada. The survey will provide data on demographics and other variables, including gender, geographic location, language, and nationality. Thereby strengthening the department’s understanding of all migrant workers and the impacts of the MWS program through a GBA plus lens.
As part of its data strategy, the Temporary Foreign Worker Program is currently undertaking an enhanced data linkage between the Labour Market Impact Assessment system and IRCC’s work permit data. This linkage will allow the department to gather information on gender. The addition of gender information is part of a more comprehensive analysis of demographics (age, gender, and nationality) to support the monitoring and reporting on the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
Workforce Development Agreements
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
A performance measurement strategy has been developed for the Workforce Development Agreements. This strategy enables the collection of data to report to Canadians in meaningful ways about the impact of programs, including on the labour market outcomes for persons with disabilities. Over time, this will expand the program’s capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity. Data will be collected on gender, age and for designated groups such as Indigenous people, persons with disabilities, and visible minorities.
Youth Employment and Skills Strategy
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
Socio-demographic data of participants is collected, but is self-reported on a voluntary basis. Many departments collect this data in a way that allows it to be linked to other performance indicators and different identity factors. The Youth Employment and Skills Strategy (YESS) is working towards further standardization of data collection by departments. This will allow for more robust data analysis to inform policy and program research and development, including stronger GBA plus.
In 2022, the department reviewed the YESS performance measurement framework (PMF) with its horizontal partners. YESS officials proposed an upgraded performance measurement framework, which includes better definitions and disaggregation for youth groups, along with updated indicators, such as “Skills Development”, and “Supportive Employment”, which will promote better data standardization across the YESS horizontal strategy. Additionally, under the revised indicator “Youth (Groups) Served” indicator, the definition of “disability” will be aligned with and disaggregated according to the Accessible Canada Act (2019) and 2SLGBTQI+ will be added as a youth group. The proposed performance measurement framework will improve labour market data that supports policy decisions. If approved, YESS partner departments will begin to implement the upgraded framework in the course of fiscal year 2023 to 2024.
Core responsibility 4: Working Conditions and Workplace Relations
Federal Workers' Compensation
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The program provides benefits to federal employees (or their dependants) who suffer occupational injuries or illnesses arising out of, or in connection with their employment, or who are killed while on duty. The program is gender neutral as benefits are paid based on occupational injuries, illness arising out of, or in connection with employment, or being killed while on duty. At present, FWCS does not yet have a GBA plus data collection plan in place. However, FWCS will endeavor to develop a GBA plus data collection plan slated for 2024 to 2025.
International Labour Affairs
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
There are no plans to expand data collection in fiscal year 2023 to 2024. Program activities promote gender equality and non-discrimination in Free Trade Agreement partner countries, and there is no means of attributing a direct correlating of impact of these agreements and related grants and contributions programming to particular sub-populations. There is no data collection plan that is to be undertaken by the Labour Program specific to the impacts of technical assistance related to trade agreements on particular subpopulations. Rather, the program utilises data collection and published reports from international organisations such as the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and other bodies related to this field of work. In addition, organisations that are recipients of Grants and Contributions funding through the International Trade and Labour stream undertake monitoring, data collection and report regularly to the department at the output level (such as number of female/male workers trained, etc.).
Labour Relations
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
Labour Relations does not have a GBA plus data collection plan in place because the program’s data collection focuses on specific sectors/industries and key events in the collective bargaining cycle. The program is gender neutral - it provides dispute resolution and dispute prevention services in the federally-regulated sector in accordance with the collective bargaining cycle. There is no plan to expand data collection. The composition (gender and diversity) of unionized workforces is tracked via the Federal Jurisdiction Workplace Survey.
In the fiscal year 2023 to 2024, where appropriate, this program will continue to use data from the Federal Jurisdiction Workplace Survey (Statistics Canada and ESDC) and Labour Program data.
Labour Standards
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
Information on the age, sex and income of the target population is based on data from the Federal Jurisdiction Workplace Survey, last conducted in early 2022. The data from this survey also allows the program to report on impacts by gender and diversity.
Occupational Health and Safety
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
Information on the age, sex and income of the target population is based on data from the Federal Jurisdiction Workplace Survey. A Survey of Employees in the Federal Jurisdiction that took place in 2022 will provide more up-to-date data. This will expand the program’s capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity.
Wage Earner Protection Program
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The only GBA plus data collected by the program is the age of applicants. As part of the follow-up to the program evaluation, options are being examined to capture additional data.
Workplace Equity
Yes, this program does collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
Workplace Equity collects the annual employment equity data of federally regulated private-sector employers for the 4 groups designated under the Employment Equity Act – women, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorities. This information is reported annually in the Employment Equity Act: Annual Report. New reporting requirements on expanded salary ranges and pay gap data were introduced in 2021 for data to be reported in 2022. This data will be posted online in 2023 and will help the department expand its capacity to report on the impacts of the transparency initiative by the gender and diversity characteristics covered by the act.
Core responsibility 5: Information Delivery Services for Other Departments
Citizen Service Network
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The program does not collect demographic data on clients served. However, it will continue to use its annual Client Experience Survey to report on impacts by gender and diversity.
The department will analyze the results of its annual Service Canada Client Experience Survey when they become available in the Spring of 2023. These results will be analyzed by gender and other client group variables, such as disability, newcomers, non-English or French speakers, clients living in rural areas, clients living in remote areas, youth, seniors and Indigenous identity.
This analysis will help identify groups who have difficulty accessing service and identifying their needs. These results are used to improve access to services to apply for federal programs.
Government of Canada Internet Presence
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
There are no plans to expand data collection in fiscal year 2022 to 2023. By nature, the program ensures the delivery of information to all Canadians on the Internet. The service does not capture any personalized client data since it is an anonymous service.
Service Canada provides the infrastructure for Canada.ca. Individual departments are responsible for their own program and service content including the collection of GBA plus data.
Government of Canada Telephone General Enquiries Services
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
There are no plans to expand data collection in fiscal year 2022 to 2023. The service does not capture any client data. It is a general enquiries and anonymous service.
However, the department is working on a plan to track demographics through feedback questionnaires for its service channels such as the 1 800 O-Canada. Pending privacy review approval, demographics will be collected and partial results will be available in the next year.
Passport
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
This program is delivered on behalf of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). As such, the department only collects data requested by IRCC, which is the responsible department for GBA plus reporting.
IRCC is working to improve policies related to accessibility, fairness and affordability considerations to facilitate equitable access to passports by conducting GBA plus. IRCC, through Service Canada points of service and employees, collects data based on, but not limited to, gender, date of birth (age) and place of birth. This data is used to inform better policy outcomes for vulnerable groups.
Service Canada and IRCC regularly collaborate on issues related to program and service accessibility including access to passport services throughout its Citizen Service Network (CSN) by diverse groups.
The Passport program uses data collected to ensure gender-equitable and fair access to all Canadians through the CSN. This takes into account how marginalized and underserved clients access and obtain service through Service Canada delivery channels.
Service Delivery Partnerships
No, this program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity.
The purpose of the Service Delivery Partnerships (SDP) program is to establish service partnerships with external partners. Partners include: federal institutions, provinces and territories, municipalities and Indigenous organizations and can also include non-profit corporations or public bodies, which perform duties for the previously mentioned partners.
Service delivery partners are responsible for collecting data and reporting on impacts related to GBA plus for their respective programs. The SDP program does not conduct a GBA plus analysis on the programs of other departments, nor could the program conduct GBA plus analysis on SDPs that provide general service delivery support for multiple programs. However, beginning in fiscal year 2023 to 2024, for any program-specific SDP, it will confirm with partners that they have assessed the impacts of a proposed program on vulnerable populations considering gender and other factors. The SDP program will track the number of SDPs for which the responsible lead has conducted a GBA plus assessment. This will help to ensure that service delivery partnerships are implemented in a gender-equitable manner.
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