2024-25 Departmental Plan at a glance

A departmental plan describes a department’s priorities, plans and associated costs for the upcoming three fiscal years.

• Vision, mission, raison d’etre and operating context
• Minister’s mandate letter

Key priorities

In 2024-25, Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) will continue to advance gender equality through an intersectional lens by focusing on the following four priorities:

•  Promoting and advancing women and gender equality.
•  Leading and advancing Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) implementation throughout the Government of Canada.
• Preventing and addressing Gender-Based Violence (GBV).
•  Promoting and advancing 2SLGBTQI+ equality.

Refocusing Government Spending

In Budget 2023, the government committed to reducing spending by $14.1 billion over the next five years, starting in 2023–24, and by $4.1 billion annually after that.

As part of meeting this commitment, WAGE is planning the following spending reductions in operating budget:

• 2024-25: $1,000,000
• 2025-26: $1,500,000
• 2026-27 and after: $2,000,000

WAGE will achieve these reductions by reducing operating expenses (including travel and professional services) and by adjusting business processes to achieve efficiencies and aligning activities with core priorities and functions.

The figures in this departmental plan reflect these reductions.

Highlights

A Departmental Results Framework consists of an organization’s core responsibilities, the results it plans to achieve, and the performance indicators that measure progress toward these results.

Advancing gender equality

Departmental results:

• The Department’s interventions facilitate the advancement of gender equality
• The federal government systematically considers gender equality

Planned spending: $347,838,890

Planned human resources: 304

In 2024-25, WAGE will continue to promote and advance women and gender equality, in accordance with its key roles identified when the Department was created, that of convener, knowledge broker, and capacity builder, by undertaking coordinated and meaningful outreach and engagement with new and existing partners and stakeholders. Given the importance of evidence-based decision-making to achieving its priorities, WAGE is committed to ensuring that departmental data is accurate and current to inform decisions on policy, programs and services. The Department will also continue to identify and prioritize strategic investments in support of systemic change. WAGE will continue to advance GBA Plus implementation across the federal government by enhancing access to GBA Plus resources, increasing awareness and engagement on the GBA Plus approach, providing advice on intersectional application of GBA Plus, and leading analysis and supporting research for GBA Plus.

WAGE will continue to implement the National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence including the federal contribution through the federal Gender-Based Violence Strategy. It will also deliver gender-based violence funding initiatives for promising practices, community-based research and to support Indigenous and 2SLGBTQI+ organizations in increasing their capacity to provide prevention programming. WAGE will promote and advance 2SLGBTQI+ equality by continuing to lead and implement the Federal 2SLGBTQI+ Action Plan, strengthening the 2SLGBTQI+ sector, and providing advice, research, analysis, and knowledge mobilization on 2SLGBTQI+ issues. WAGE will also focus its efforts on preventing violence before it occurs, on advancing research, and on data collection, mobilization and uptake.

More information about advancing gender equality can be found in the full departmental plan.