Office of the Auditor General of Canada 2024–25 Departmental Plan
Supplementary information table
Gender-based analysis plus (GBA Plus)
Institutional GBA Plus capacity
The Office of the Auditor General of Canada (OAG) is committed to ensuring that GBA Plus considerations are integrated into its audit work in order to provide elected officials and all Canadians with objective information on the government’s progress on its gender, equity, diversity, and inclusion priorities. This work is supported by a refined audit methodology and increased awareness and knowledge of our audit professionals. Diversity and inclusion are central to the identity and activities of the entire office, both in terms of audit products and internal operations.
An executive-level employee acts as Executive Sponsor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and as Champion of GBA Plus. The Executive Sponsor not only ensures that GBA Plus is factored into the OAG’s work but also acts as a liaison to the Executive Committee on matters related to diversity and inclusion.
Planned activities to support the advancement of Canada’s GBA Plus commitments are as follows:
- In all of our audit work, the OAG is committed to examining how government departments, agencies, Crown corporations, and territorial organizations are progressing toward their gender, equity, diversity, and inclusion commitments, including the use of the GBA Plus tool when required.
- A team within the OAG provides technical advice to audit teams. This team will continue to deliver training, provide internal guidance, and develop tools to build capacity and ensure that all audit products produced by the OAG consider a GBA Plus lens.
The following major initiatives are underway to support equity, diversity, and inclusion within the OAG:
- The OAG has developed a 2023–26 diversity and inclusion plan. The scope and focus of the plan are
- leadership accountability
- data-informed decision making
- education and awareness
- identifying and reducing barriers to increase diversity and inclusion
- Specific commitments in the diversity and inclusion plan include
- a training curriculum for employees that incorporates elements on diversity, employment equity, anti-racism and anti-harassment, GBA Plus, Indigenous issues, and inclusive hiring practices
- the addition of a new Auditor General Award category, recognizing people who demonstrate and encourage a diverse, healthy, and inclusive professional environment and culture, including supporting employee well-being, learning, and growth
- an employment system review, which will identify barriers and biases and measures to eliminate or mitigate them
- a review of OAG policies to ensure that they reflect diversity and inclusion and GBA Plus perspectives
- increasing participation in professional development programs
Highlights of GBA Plus results reporting capacity by program
| Legislative auditing | Our audit reports benefit Canadian society. A number of our performance audit reports have directly and indirectly examined how the government considers GBA Plus in the design, development, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of programs, policies, and initiatives. This includes various identity factors and circumstances that intersect and influence who we are and how we experience programs, policies, and initiatives. The recommendations from those reports can lead to better outcomes for Canadians. This program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor or report program effects by gender and diversity. The following actions are being taken to enable future monitoring or reporting of the program’s effects by gender and diversity:
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