Planned evaluation coverage over the next five fiscal years - Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat 2018–19 Departmental Plan

Program	Last evaluation	Evaluations planned in the next 5 years	Fiscal year of approval	2018–19 Program spending covered by the planned evaluation dollars)	2018–19 Program spending covered by all planned evaluations (dollars)	2018–19 Total program spending (dollars)	Rationale for not evaluating Program or spending
Oversight and Treasury Board Support	Evaluation of the Treasury Board Submission Process 2009–10	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	28,280,267	^{table 1 note 2}
Expenditure Data, Analysis, and Reviews	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	11,582,447	^{table 1 note 2}
Results and Performance Reporting Policies and Initiatives	Evaluation of the 2009 Policy on Evaluation 2013–14	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	3,893,189	^{table 1 note 2}
Government-wide Funds	Not applicable	Not applicable		Not applicable	Not applicable	3,553,193,000	The Government-wide Funds Program represents 54% of total program spending. It includes funding for the expenditures of other federal organizations on items such as parental benefits, severance payments, adjustments for salary increases, and operating and capital budget carry forward. This program is for pass-through costs and therefore cannot be evaluated.
Comptrollership Policies and Initiatives	Evaluation of the Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan 2013–14	Evaluation of the Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan^{table 1 note *}	2018–19	500,000	785,000	29,755,761	^{table 1 note 2}
	Not applicable	Certification Program for the Federal Government Procurement and Materiel Management Communities	2019–20	285,000
	Evaluation of the Human Resources Services Modernization Initiative 2016–17	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
	Evaluation of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board Contribution Program 2015–16	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
	Evaluation of the Right of First Refusal for Guard Services 2014–15	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
	Five-Year Evaluation of the 2006 Policy on Internal Audit 2011–12	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
	Summative Evaluation of the Pilot Project on Non-Lapsing Appropriations for Capital Asset Management 2010–11	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
	Evaluation of the Policy on Title to Intellectual Property Arising Under Crown Procurement Contracts^{table 1 note **} 2010–11	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Service Delivery Policies and Initiatives	Not applicable	Expanding Open Government	2019–20	3,362,703	16,101,571	23,873,167	^{table 1 note 2}
	Not applicable	Canadian Digital Service Strategy	2020–21	8,469,689
	Not applicable	Client-First Service Strategy	2021–22	2,754,199
	Not applicable	Revitalizing access to information	2022–23	1,514,980
Digital Technology and Security Policies and Initiatives	Evaluation of the Oversight and Enablement of High Risk, Complex IT Enabled Projects 2014–15	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	18,627,558	^{table 1 note 2}
Management Accountability Framework and Policy Suite Integrity	Evaluation of the Management Accountability Framework 2017–18	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	2,267,391	^{table 1 note 2}
Collective Bargaining and Labour Relations	Evaluation of the Classification Program 2017–18	Classification Program	2022–23	6,610,000	6,610,000	21,258,152	^{table 1 note 2}
Pension and Benefits Management	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	9,182,736	^{table 1 note 2}
Public Service Employer Payments	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	2,738,905,397	The Public Service Employer Payments Program represents 42% of total program spending. It includes payments of the employer’s share of contributions to employee pensions and benefits plans. This program is for pass-through costs and therefore cannot be evaluated.
People Management and Executive Policies and Initiatives	Not applicable	Performance Management Directives for EXs and non-EXs	2019–20	489,815	4,449,815	28,938,827	^{table 1 note 2}
	Not applicable	Joint Learning Program	2019–20	3,960,000	4,449,815
	Evaluation of the Public Service Employee Survey 2017–18	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
	Horizontal Evaluation of the Student Employment Programs ^{table 1 note ***} 2014–15	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
	Evaluation of the Official Languages Centre of Excellence Initiative ^{table 1 note ****} 2013–14	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
	Evaluation of the Public Service Modernization Act Strategic Investment Framework 2011–12	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Regulatory Policy and Oversight	Mid-term Evaluation of the Implementation of the Cabinet Directive on Streamlining Regulation 2011–12	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	4,758,109	^{table 1 note 2}
Regulatory Cooperation	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	1,602,957	^{table 1 note 2}
Internal Services	Not applicable	Values and ethics	2018–19	142,000	142,000	77,268,537	^{table 1 note 2}
	Not applicable	Privacy practices	2019–20	Unknown, still establishing scope of evaluation	Unknown, still establishing scope of evaluation
	Evaluation of the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat’s Centralized Language Training Program 2017–18	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
	Evaluation of the Research and Policy Initiatives Assistance Program 2014–15	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Total	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	16,243,571	6,553,397,491	Not applicable
Table 1 Notes Table 1 Note 1 All references to program spending refer to planned spending for the 2018–19 fiscal year only and not cumulative spending over 5 years. Return to table 1 note 1 referrer Table 1 Note 2 The Secretariat conducts an exhaustive planning process to develop its Departmental Evaluation Plan. The process includes formal information requests, open and targeted consultations at all levels of the organization, document reviews (including the budget and the Speech from the Throne), integration of evaluations identified in Cabinet documents, and consideration of programs evaluated in previous years. The capacity of the evaluation unit, which includes full-time equivalents and funding available for professional services, is also taken into account. The proposed projects are weighted, assessed for risk and materiality, and prioritized. They are then are vetted through the appropriate governance committees. Any program spending not flagged for evaluation was deemed to be outside of the priorities during the planning process. Return to table 1 note 2 referrer Table 1 Note 3 The Evaluation of the Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan is a horizontal evaluation that is conducted every 5 years and is led by Environment and Climate Change Canada. Return to table 1 note * referrer Table 1 Note 4 The Evaluation of the Policy on Title to Intellectual Property Arising Under Crown Procurement Contracts is a horizontal evaluation that was led by the former Industry Canada. Return to table 1 note referrer Table 1 Note 5 The Horizontal Evaluation of the Student Employment Programs was conducted jointly by the Public Service Commission and the Secretariat. Return to table 1 note * referrer Table 1 Note 6 The Evaluation of the Official Languages Centre of Excellence Initiative met the accountability requirements of the Horizontal Evaluation of the Roadmap for Canada’s Linguistic Duality 2008–2013: Acting for the Future (the Roadmap), led by Canadian Heritage. Return to table 1 note **** referrer

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