Gender-based analysis plus: general information — Departmental Plan 2022-23

List of acronyms

2SLGBTQQIA+: Two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual
ADM: Assistant Deputy Minister
FTE: Full-Time Equivalent
GBA Plus: Gender-based Analysis plus
OLMC: Official languages minority communities

Institutional GBA Plus Capacity

Governance

The Department’s governance structure consists of a GBA Plus Champion, a GBA Plus Responsibility Centre, and a GBA Plus Community of Practice. The GBA Plus Responsibility Centre has supported the Community of Practice, which consists of representation from every branch, region and corporate service area, for the past six fiscal years and for which GBA Plus training is a membership requirement. Members of the Community of Practice play an advisory role in their respective branches.

Each branch is responsible for implementing GBA Plus within their area of responsibility. For key corporate products, such as planning, and Cabinet and Budget submissions, the GBA Plus Responsibility Centre provides guidance and review services and signs off as appropriate on GBA Plus analysis.

Some branches of the Department have additional governance mechanisms on GBA Plus. For example, Sport Canada’s Gender Equity Secretariat, launched through Budget 2018, continues to ensure that GBA Plus and considerations on diverse populations of Canadians are integrated into decision-making processes, including Cabinet and Budget submissions. The branch also has an internal working-level group across Sport Canada dedicated to GBA Plus, which is tasked with reviewing all Cabinet documents and policies with a gender lens, and all staff are required to complete GBA Plus training.

Human Resources

To support these and other activities, the Department has the following human resources dedicated to supporting GBA Plus objectives:

1 ADM Champion;
1.0 FTE in the GBA Plus Responsibility Centre who is the Department’s GBA Plus Focal Point.
44 branch, regional and corporate representatives in the GBA Plus Community of Practice (an average of 7.33 FTEs for each sector); and

Planned Initiatives to Enhance GBA Plus Capacity

A number of complementary and intersecting initiatives are planned for 2022-23 to further enhance GBA Plus Capacity. Internal services will undertake work to improve data collection, tool provision, and program diversity. Initiatives include the following:

The Human Resources and Workplace Management Branch will pursue its commitment to ensure all genders as well as the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community are considered during the development of tools, surveys, programs, policies, as well as during consultations with employees of the Department. More specifically, the Human Resources and Workplace Management Branch will continue the implementation of the Department’s Employment Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, as well as the elimination of barriers identified during the employment systems review related to elements such as recruitment, promotion, and professional development. Actions outlined in the Strategy will contribute to the achievement of Deputy Ministers’ commitments on diversity and inclusion, as well as the elimination of inequalities among different groups, including members of the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community.
The Accessibility Office, which was newly created in 2020, will continue to apply an intersectional lens to the work that it undertakes to develop the Department’s first multi-year Accessibility Plan. The Accessibility Office has identified areas where greater disaggregated data is needed (e.g., rates of discrimination and harassment). It is working closely with the Policy Research Group, the Data Strategy Working Group, Statistics Canada, the Knowledge Circle for Indigenous Inclusion, Employment Equity & Diversity committees at Canadian Heritage, Women and Gender Equality Canada and the Office of Disability at Employment and Social Development Canada to collect the data it needs to further expand the Office’s capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity.
The Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Review, launched in April 2021, aims to offer a concrete way for a selection of Canadian Heritage’s programs to undertake a critical analysis of their programs through an equity lens. The Review aims to challenge assumptions and surface systemic barriers to equity at all levels as well as identify key areas to further explore in collaboration with communities. Participation in the Review is expected to deepen capacity for equity analysis and decision-making, including as it relates to GBA Plus processes.
The Department’s GBA Plus Responsibility Centre will continue to undertake efforts to strengthen the rigour and intersectionality of GBA Plus, including leading GBA Plus that is transformational and meaningful and not just initiative driven or focused on data to the exclusion of the greater context. In particular, work will be undertaken to advance the mandate commitment held by the Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion to continue “the evaluation process of GBA Plus with the goal of enhancing the framing and parameters of this analytical tool and with particular attention to the intersectional analysis of race, indigeneity, rurality, disability and sexual identity, among other characteristics”.
To this end, new GBA Plus tools which enhance intersectionality and rigour in the application of GBA Plus, released by Women and Gender Equality Canada in summer 2021, will be rolled out across the Department. The tools will inform departmental analysis, decision-making and key corporate products, such as planning, and Cabinet and Budget submissions.
Ongoing work undertaken by the Policy Research Group to further enhance departmental capacity for evidence-based GBA Plus, particularly with a grounding in intersectional research will continue. Notable planned initiatives include:
1. Updating the Diversity and Inclusion scan and portal available on GCpedia, which maximizes the use of available data on diversity and inclusion in Canada and makes it available to researchers, federal employees and other stakeholders across Canada;
2. Collaboration with internal and external partners regarding the continuous need for improved access to disaggregated data;
3. Literature reviews on GBA Plus related topics and providing support on an as-requested basis to the Department’s program areas;
4. Infographic projects and consultations on accessible documents;
5. Support to advisory committees’ activities (e.g., (Dis)ability committee);
6. Social Impact research and development of qualitative methods in order to better incorporate intersectional analyses into decision-making processes.

Highlights of GBA Plus Results Reporting Capacity by Program

Arts

Does this program collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity (GBA Plus)?
- Yes
If yes, please describe (as relevant) any notable future initiatives to expand the program’s capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity and timelines.
- The Arts Program collects sufficient data at the organizational level to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity. The Program has several years of historical and current high-level data drawn from organizations’ mandates which is used to report on Program impact on selected groups: urban, rural or remote communities, official language minority communities, Indigenous, ethnocultural (including visible minorities), and youth. The Program funds organizations rather than individuals, posing challenges to collecting individual-level GBA Plus data. While information is available on ultimate beneficiaries of arts programming via alternate measures (e.g., links to the mandate of an organization), to date the information collected has focused more on information related to diversity than to gender-related information.

In 2022–23, programs under Core Responsibility 1 Creativity, arts and culture will be assessing their performance measurement information against GBA Plus and Diversity and Inclusion considerations. To further support the collection and analysis of quality data, the Department will be conducting research and developing methodologies for GBA Plus data collection for programs, in collaboration with other partners.

Examples of actions being taken to enable future monitoring or reporting of the program’s impacts by gender and diversity include:

Harbourfront Centre Funding Program Evaluation (2014-15 to 2017-18)

As part of the Harbourfront Centre Funding Program evaluation (2018), the program continues to work on its commitment to gather and review existing statistical information related to GBA Plus considerations for the Harbourfront Centre. This information will help inform the development of GBA Plus indicators for the Harbourfront Centre Funding Program.

The work was delayed due to the important impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Harbourfront Centre since March 2020.

The initiative is progressing, and the Department will be able to report on it in the 2022-23 Departmental Results Reports.

Grouped Arts Evaluation: Canada Arts Presentation Fund, Canada Cultural Spaces Fund, and Canada Cultural Investment Fund (2013-14 to 2017-18)

As part of the Arts Programs Grouped Evaluation (2019) recommendation to “address barriers to all programs for smaller organizations and underserved groups…”, Arts Branch continues its research work to better understand and validate the barriers to program funding for small organizations and underserved groups, and in particular for Indigenous and racialized arts organizations. This work will help identify some of the key equity-deserving groups for which programs should collect data.

Labour Force Survey

Arts Branch will increase its understanding of employment in the arts sector by purchasing additional disaggregated data, which will enable analysis of Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey data through a gender lens.

Cultural Marketplace Framework

Does this program collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity (GBA Plus)?
- The Cultural Marketplace Framework program contains multiple components. Some components collect sufficient data to enable monitoring and/or reporting on program impacts by gender and diversity, while others have strategies in place to improve data collection.

Digital Citizen Initiative

While the Digital Citizen Initiative has some data on impacts of disinformation on various communities through the projects it has funded, it does not currently have sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity. There is a gap in existing research on these topics, and there continues to be a gap in current information about how disinformation and online hate affect different groups in Canada. In order to address that gap, the Initiative will continue to use the efforts dedicated to the research component to gain a greater understanding of who is most likely to disseminate disinformation and online hate, who is most likely to be impacted by it, and the most effective ways to tailor responses to said groups.

Copyright

In supporting the Government in its commitment to extend the copyright term of protection and address other copyright issues, the copyright policy team will be routinely using a GBA Plus process, deepening its analysis and systematically incorporating diversity considerations into policy advice. Resulting work will be cognizant of the diverse groups (e.g., Indigenous communities, 2SLGBTQQIA+ communities, French-language creators, and racialized and ethno-cultural communities) and how they may experience copyright policies.

The Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Arts and Cultural Expressions initiative

The Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Arts and Cultural Expressions initiative has data on the proponents of sub-projects, participants in consultative processes, and contributors to the publications and studies that it has funded. However, these have not been collected and assembled in a systematic way.

The initiative will take steps to catalogue relevant data and capture it moving forward, as follows:

doing a gender breakdown of the proponents for the Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Arts and Cultural Expressions initiative sub-projects to date;
going through participants lists for consultative processes to assess gender balance; and
examining the list of contributors to the Compendium (a collection of articles on promoting and protecting the arts and cultural expressions of Indigenous Peoples) to assess gender balance;

This base tally would then be updated as additional projects and consultations under the initiative proceed.

A gender analysis expert will be invited to share lessons learned on culture change in support of mainstreaming the use of a gender equality lens. This could also potentially benefit the Initiative’s approach on other diversity and inclusion fronts.

Cultural Sector Investment Review

When Canadian Heritage’s Cultural Sector Investment Review team negotiates undertakings to ensure that proposed foreign investments in Canada’s cultural sector are of net benefit to Canada, it:

seeks to obtain an undertaking which addresses gender and diversity (and that we have standard proposed language in this regard); and
monitors investors’ compliance with undertakings.

The team does not currently collect this data. Furthermore, due to confidentiality provisions of the Investment Canada Act, even if the Cultural Sector Investment Review were to collect this data, it would not be able to report on the results of that monitoring.

Creative Export Strategy

While the Creative Export Strategy’s data entry system collects information on the Strategy’s funding recipients and other beneficiaries (e.g., cultural sector, headquarters location, target market, and the type of support they were provided by the Strategy), it does not uniformly collect data to monitor and report its impacts by gender and diversity across all components of the Strategy, making it difficult to assess its full impacts by gender and diversity.

For example, while the Creative Export Canada program’s application form does not currently ask applicants to voluntarily self-identify, it includes a section specific to gender and diversity, allowing them to explain how their business or project promotes diversity or gender equality. The evaluation process for applications submitted to the Program also takes note of applicants that highlight plans or commitments to implement gender or diversity considerations in staffing, leadership, and decision-making roles. Proposals with gender and diversity inclusionary policies receive bonus points in the assessment. This information is considered when the program prepares the list of competitive projects with strong potential to generate export revenues and finalizes recommendations for funding. Impacts related to GBA Plus considerations are not always reported in all the funding recipients’ reports since this information is not currently a mandatory requirement. The program is reflecting, however, on ways to obtain concrete data related to GBA Plus considerations, such as making it mandatory to report this information in interim activity and final reports, by adding it to the contribution agreement’s results section.

Canadian Heritage-led creative industries trade missions collect information on gender and diversity by requesting participants to voluntarily self-identify if they are members of equity-deserving communities during their post-trade mission surveys. This allows the Strategy’s delivery team to better monitor the clients served by the Strategy and identify any gaps in service provided to equity-deserving communities. These surveys are voluntary and confidential.

In 2022-23, the Creative Export Strategy delivery team will continue developing an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Data and Engagement Plan to better support Indigenous peoples and equity-deserving communities. Through this plan, the Department intends to collect information on the gender and diversity of all beneficiaries, as well as information on whether a beneficiary’s initiative has an impact on gender and diversity. This database will allow the Department to better track and report on the overall impacts of the Strategy on gender and diverse communities.

Film and Video Policy and Programs

Film and Video Policy and Programs is working with its partners, including Telefilm Canada and the National Film Board of Canada, to prioritize data collection on diverse communities, to be able to better respond to their needs.

Cultural Industries Support and Development

Does this program collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity (GBA Plus)?
- Yes

The Cultural Industries Support and Development program contains multiple components. Some components collect sufficient data to enable monitoring and/or reporting on program impacts by gender and diversity, while others have strategies in place to improve data collection:

Recovery and Reopening Fund

A survey of Recovery and Reopening Fund recipients will measure differentiated outcomes of funding across an anticipated 16 different communities, and will include questions seeking to measure the extent to which recovery funding enables organizations to support recovery and reopening efforts, as well as how funded activities advance equity, diversity, and inclusion.^{Footnote 1}

Canada Media Fund

The Canada Media Fund, a third-party delivery program, is responsible for data collection as part of its regular data collections and reports on its results annually to the Department. As such, Canadian Heritage has access to aggregated data on gender balance, but not to detailed breakdowns below this aggregated level. At this time, the Canada Media Fund does not have data on other groups, gender identities, or communities generally considered as part of GBA Plus analysis. However, the Canada Media Fund developed a 2021–23 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy in consultation with the communities, which will help guide the Canada Media Fund’s work to improve equity and inclusion through 2023. One of the objectives is to implement an approach to data collection and analysis to support evidence-based decision-making, explore alternatives to current mechanisms for determining and rewarding success, and track progress.

In 2022-23, the Canada Media Fund will continue their work to establish a baseline by collecting disaggregated diversity and inclusion data on companies and projects funded as well as work with partners to set standards of privacy, language and best practices in diversity and inclusion data collection and usage across the industry. Additionally, the Canada Media Fund will continue to collect regular information on members of underrepresented communities applying to its programs and carry out extensive research on their successes, challenges, and concerns.

Local Journalism Initiative

The program’s third-party Administrator Organizations collect data on coverage of Indigenous, ethnocultural, Official Language Minority and 2SLGBTQQIA+ communities, including self-reported data on journalists that belong to these communities. The program does not currently collect gender-based data on journalists employed through the program. The program will work with Administrator Organizations to expand data collection. To this end, the program will reach out to departmental GBA Plus experts to explore opportunities to increase Administrator Organization awareness of GBA Plus concepts and practices. Doing so will help them develop data collection strategies that are sensitive to the industry segments they serve.

Indigenous Screen Office

Recipients of the Indigenous Screen Office Program funding are required to report on gender, geographic location, language and other gender and diversity indicators. The Indigenous Screen Office will report on these indicators to the Department as part of their annual report. 2022-23 will be the Indigenous Screen Office Program’s first full year of operation and, therefore, the first year of data collection and reporting on impacts relating to gender and diversity. The need to build capacity in this area will be assessed subsequently.

News Renumeration

Taking a GBA Plus lens to support efforts in the news industry has the potential to lead to more economic participation in this industry from currently underrepresented groups, which supports the Gender Results Framework goal of equal and full participation in the economy. In particular, according to the 2016 Census, individuals reporting as visible minorities are significantly underrepresented among journalists, relative to the rest of the economy. Additionally, it is notable that declining revenues in the news industry are likely to disproportionately impact news that serve smaller or more specific audiences, where economic margins are particularly slim (e.g., local news, Indigenous communities). Efforts will be made to integrate these considerations into the news remuneration regime, to the extent that is appropriate for the scope of that legislative tool.

Canada Periodical Fund:

The Canada Periodical Fund has a database with a significant amount of data gathered about applicants, including information on support to 2SLGBTQQIA+ publications, Indigenous publications, ethnocultural publications and publications from members of official language minority communities. The data is analyzed every funding cycle and these results are compared to previous cycles. The Canada Periodical Fund will further its work in recognition of the important needs and preferences of diverse groups by participating in Canadian Heritage’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Review and by examining the specific situation and business environment for publishers serving diverse communities through dedicated research initiatives on these communities, including English Canada and Quebec markets as well as official language minority, ethnocultural and Indigenous communities.

Canada Book Fund

The Canada Book Fund collects data pertaining to diversity by asking the owners of the book publishing firms which receive funding from the program whether they identify with an Indigenous or racialized community and asks if the organizations are from official language minority communities. In 2022-23, the program will start collecting data on sales of books by authors from official-language minority, Indigenous and racialized communities.

The Canada Music Fund

The Canada Music Fund will continue to monitor issues relating to gender equality, diversity and inclusion in order to alleviate possible systemic barriers faced by equity-deserving groups through short-, medium- and long-term changes to the program. The Canada Music Fund, along with its two third-party administrators, will continue to work towards a more robust data collection approach which will allow for more efficient reporting of program impacts by gender and diversity. In time, this data will provide the opportunity for further analysis and potential recommendations for future program development.

National Celebrations, Commemorations and Symbols

Does this program collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity (GBA Plus)?
- No
If no, please describe what actions are being taken to enable future monitoring or reporting of the program’s impacts by gender and diversity.
- No specific actions are planned at this time.

The Celebration and Commemoration Program largely distributes small grants to community organizations, not individuals or larger arts and cultural institutions, where tracking may be more institutionalized and where the reporting capacity is higher. While funding recipients are required to report on the number of participants reached by a project or initiative, they are not obliged to track the intersectional identity factors of participants and the final activity reports do not generally capture disaggregated data. In addition, as part of a larger government initiative to enhance the accessibility of funding programs, Celebrate Canada implemented a Fast-Track system for grants under $5,000 (representing approximately 75% of all approved projects), which requires less information from clients and simplifies the application process.

Events organized by the Major Events, Commemorations and Capital Experience Branch, such as Canada Day, Winterlude, Christmas Lights Across Canada and the Sound and Light Show, are free, open to the public, and aim to be accessible to all Canadians, for instance through various broadcast initiatives. The GBA Plus related data collection is limited and done only through public opinion research.

Community Engagement and Heritage

Does this program collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity (GBA Plus)?
- No
If no, please describe what actions are being taken to enable future monitoring or reporting of the program’s impacts by gender and diversity.

Building Communities through Arts and Heritage

The Building Communities through Arts and Heritage Program is currently exploring avenues from which to collect and measure disaggregated data provided by its client base. In doing so, the Program has completed a survey and analysis of comparable international programs, both of which put forward GBA Plus-related concerns, to assess for useful mechanisms and routes. This is an ongoing project and remains in the development stage.

In Budget 2019, the Program received an additional $14 million in supplementary funding over two years (2019-20 and 2020-21) for its Local Festivals component, of which a minimum of $2 million was allocated to help support arts and heritage activities at 2SLGBTQQIA+ Pride events across Canada.

Funds from the 2020 Fall Economic Statement and Budget 2021 extended the Program’s supplementary funding until the end of 2023-24. It is anticipated that these additional funds can maintain consistent funding levels to all recipients, including 2SLGBTQQIA+ recipients. Indeed, in 2021-22, the Program increased the number of supported 2SLGBTQQIA+ events to 46 ($1,990,000 in approved funding). This is up from 13 events in 2018-19 ($543,000), 24 in 2019-20 ($942,400), and 40 in 2020-21 ($1,427,400).

The Building Communities through Arts and Heritage Program set one GBA Plus indicator to measure the amount of funding provided to 2SLGBTQQIA+ events, with a target of $1 million per year. This target was exceeded and while it was specific to the initial Budget 2019 spending, the Program will continue to collect data that enables it to report on the indicator.

Preservation of and Access to Heritage

Does this program collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity (GBA Plus)?
- Yes
If yes, please describe (as relevant) any notable future initiatives to expand the program’s capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity and timelines.

The Museums Assistance Program

The Museums Assistance Program supports government priorities of reconciliation, GBA Plus and OLMCs. Although no specific priorities are identified in the Museums Assistance Program guidelines, the program is prioritizing applications by or serving Indigenous, Black, Asian, racialized and religious minority communities as well as the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community.

Young Canada Works – Heritage

Gender and diversity data of participating youth is collected for Young Canada Works – Heritage. The diversity question is part of the “youth facing barriers to employment” of Employment and Social Development Canada’s Youth Employment and Skills Strategy.

The application assessment process for Young Canada Works – Heritage takes into account the following priorities:

Indigenous organizations, youth, and cultural heritage (First Nations, Inuit or Métis), including applications:

from Indigenous employers (eligible projects);
for a project aimed at Indigenous participants (Indigenous or non-Indigenous employer); or
for a project focusing on Indigenous cultural heritage (Indigenous or a non-Indigenous employer).

Also, participants are asked whether they self-identify by gender and/or as one or many of the following: Indigenous person, visible minority, a member of an Official Language Minority Community.

The Canadian Conservation Institute and the Canadian Heritage Information Network

The Canadian Conservation Institute and the Canadian Heritage Information Network collect diversity data on individuals who participate in learning opportunities. Participants are asked whether they self-identify as one or many of the following: Indigenous person, visible minority, member of an ethno-cultural group or a member of an Official Language Minority Community.

Learning about Canadian History

Does this program collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity (GBA Plus)?
- No
If no, please describe what actions are being taken to enable future monitoring or reporting of the program’s impacts by gender and diversity.

Canada History Fund: The Canada History Fund currently collects client-reported summary data regarding the total number of Canadians accessing learning materials, primarily through access to digital resources online. The program has no immediate plans to collect disaggregated data from client organizations in 2022-23.

Sport Development and High Performance

Does this program collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity (GBA Plus)?
- Yes
If yes, please describe (as relevant) any notable future initiatives to expand the program’s capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity and timelines.

General

Sport Canada is currently reviewing how data on gender and other intersectionality factors is being collected and used across the branch. This initiative aims to clarify and streamline the use of the terms “gender” and “sex” as well as to ensure that gender disaggregation across projects is inclusive of the full 2SLGBTQQIA+ spectrum and goes beyond binary classifications. This review will provide recommendations for disaggregated data on sex, gender identity and other intersecting socio-demographic variables within existing datasets and collections at Sport Canada. Highlighting both available data and data gaps will help Sport Canada improve current data analysis and future data collection to better inform decision-making, policies and programs.

Hosting Program

The program collects sufficient data to enable it to monitor and report program impacts by sex. Sports are usually divided by biological sex, not gender, and participation in events tends to align with sex. For some events geared towards specific demographics, such as the North American Indigenous Games or the Paralympic Games, information on cultural or disability backgrounds are collected.

Sport Support Program

The program collects sufficient data to enable it to monitor and report on program impacts by gender and diversity.

The Sport Support Program collects data on the gender diversity of the governing bodies of funded organizations as part of the “Report Card” process. The next collection is expected in winter 2022.

There are also specific initiatives that target individual segments of the population, such as the Sport for Social Development in Indigenous Communities initiative (for Indigenous persons and Indigenous women and girls), the Community Sport for All initiative (for equity deserving populations, particularly Black, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQQIA+ and new Canadians), the Innovation Initiative (for women and girls, 2SLGBTQQIA+ and other equity deserving populations), as well as Parasport support. These initiatives gather information disaggregated by demographic subset.

Athlete Assistance Program

The program collects sufficient data to enable it to monitor and report program impacts by sex. Sports are usually divided by biological sex, not gender, and participation in sport tends to align with sex. National Sport Organizations submit names of athletes and they are divided into male and female categories. Athletes are also identified as disabled if they are competing in a Paralympic sport.

The Athlete Assistance Program also collects microdata from individual recipients, which are disaggregated based on sex, first official language, city and province, Indigenous, and able-bodied status (Olympic or Paralympic). Sport Canada relies on feedback from retiring Athlete Assistance Program athletes, a Status of the High-Performance Athlete Report (conducted every four years), and reporting from National Sport Organizations for information related to the impact of the program (including gender-related impacts).

Sport Canada is continuing its review of indicators to ensure adequate collection of disaggregated data.

Multiculturalism

Does this program collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity (GBA Plus)?
- No
If no, please describe what actions are being taken to enable future monitoring or reporting of the program’s impacts by gender and diversity.

The Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Branch is developing a survey for its projects funded through Grants and Contributions to collect data on the gender, ethnicity and religious affiliation of program participants.

The Branch is also supporting data and evidence efforts to build awareness of racism and discrimination in Canada and their impacts on communities. In 2022-23, it will support various activities including:

data development work with Statistics Canada and the Department of Justice to collect disaggregated data to examine questions related to social identity and legal problems by visible minority group, ethnocultural/racial identity, gender, age and income; and
funding to support Statistics Canada’s Expert Advisory Committee to guide and advise Statistics Canada in the development of a conceptual framework on ethnocultural diversity and inclusion as well as families of indicators to be able to track relevant “inclusion” indicators over time.

Human Rights

Does this program collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity (GBA Plus)?
- Yes
If yes, please describe (as relevant) any notable future initiatives to expand the program’s capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity and timelines.

The impact of the Program is monitored through program evaluations. The evaluation scheduled for February 2021 was pushed back to 2022. Additionally, the program obtains data from the General Social Survey, which is conducted every five years. Data from the most recent survey is not yet available.

No further initiatives are planned at this time.

Indigenous Languages and Cultures

Does this program collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity (GBA Plus)?
- Yes
If yes, please describe (as relevant) any notable future initiatives to expand the program’s capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity and timelines.

The Indigenous Languages Component of the Indigenous Languages and Culture Program considers distinction (First Nation, Inuit and Métis) and place of residence (province or territory) in allocating its funding, so that all Indigenous people, regardless of gender, age, distinction or place of residence, can reclaim, revitalize, maintain and strengthen their languages.

The Program is working with an Indigenous researcher to conduct in-depth analysis of Statistics Canada data to identify trends in the status and characteristics of Indigenous languages and communities using data from the 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016 Censuses. The research findings will support GBA Plus as it provides data disaggregated by language, place of residence, gender, age and distinction on measures of language vitality (mother tongue, knowledge, and regular/primary home use) and will provide information at the national and local levels on progress made in revitalizing Indigenous languages.

Canadian Heritage intends to work jointly with Indigenous partners, as it renews its results framework, to determine how best to collect information about the differential impacts of the Program on segments of the Indigenous population, and to determine what, if any, specific targets should be set for diverse groups.

Youth Engagement

Does this program collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity (GBA Plus)?
- Yes
If yes, please describe (as relevant) any notable future initiatives to expand the program’s capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity and timelines.

Youth Take Charge and Exchanges Canada Programs: The Youth Take Charge and Exchanges Canada Programs are exploring options to review the program delivery to ensure it remains relevant to youth and youth-serving organizations, and that it continues to respond to the needs and expectations of today’s youth. This review may expand the Programs’ capacity to report on gender and diversity. Impacts and timelines are to be determined.
Youth Secretariat: Data results on the Prime Minister’s Youth Council applications and engagement continue to be monitored during each campaign launch to ensure that underrepresented groups are engaged and that there is diversity of representation. The Secretariat works with targeted stakeholders to reach specific communities.

Official Languages

Does this program collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity (GBA Plus)?
- Yes
If yes, please describe (as relevant) any notable future initiatives to expand the program’s capacity to report on impacts by gender and diversity and timelines.

The data from the 2021 Census, which will be available in 2022-23, will allow the Official Languages Branch to update and improve the GBA Plus analysis. This update will enable the Branch to further align its programs to address issues of equity, diversity and inclusion.

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