Horizontal Initiatives - Departmental results report for 2024 to 2025 - Employment and Social Development Canada

Youth Employment and Skills Strategy

General information

Name of horizontal initiative: Youth Employment and Skills Strategy

Lead department: Employment and Social Development Canada

Federal partner organizations: Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, Global Affairs Canada, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Canadian Heritage, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, Indigenous Services Canada, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, National Research Council, Natural Resources Canada, Parks Canada

Start date of the horizontal initiative: April 1, 2003

End date of the horizontal initiative: Ongoing

Description of the horizontal initiative: The Youth Employment and Skills Strategy (YESS) is a horizontal Government of Canada initiative led by ESDC and delivered in partnership with 11 federal departments, agencies, and Crown corporations. YESS aims to provide a flexible approach to employment services, including enhanced supports that are tailored to the individual needs of youth (aged 15-30). Programming focuses on youth facing multiple barriers to employment by providing the opportunity to gain work experience and develop the skills they need to find and keep quality jobs.

Governance structures: the 12 participating federal departments, agencies and crown corporations have committed to collect common performance management information on an ongoing basis. This will ensure effective management of the program.

• ESDC is responsible for the leadership, coordination and management of the YESS Interdepartmental Committees.
• YESS includes 2 programs:
  • YESS Program
  • Canada Summer Jobs, only delivered by ESDC

Total federal funding allocated (from start to end date) (dollars): $9,760.89 million

Total federal planned spending to date (dollars): $10,144.99 million

Total federal actual spending to date (dollars): $10,160.83 million

Date of last renewal of the horizontal initiative: May 30, 2019

Total federal funding allocated at the last renewal, and source of funding (dollars): $675.153 million

Additional federal funding received after the last renewal (dollars): $2,130.38 million

Total planned spending since the last renewal: $2,068.46 million

Total actual spending since the last renewal: $3,689.63 million

Fiscal year of planned completion of next evaluation: the Horizontal Evaluation of the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy was completed in fiscal year 2024 to 2025

The next Horizontal Evaluation of the Strategy is planned to be completed in fiscal year 2029 to 2030

Shared outcome of federal partner departments: youth have access to programs that allow them to acquire the skills, learning experiences, and opportunities they need to find and maintain employment or return to school

Performance indicator(s):

• number of youth served
• percentage of youth employed or self-employed (percentage of participants who found employment within 12 weeks of completing their last program activity)
• percentage of youth returned to school (percentage of participants who returned to school within 12 weeks of completing their last program activity.
• percentage of youth served from each of the following groups who are facing barriers to employment:
  • Indigenous youth
  • visible minority youth
  • youth with a disability
  • youth living in official language minority communities (see note below)
  • youth living in rural and remote areas (see note below)
  • women

notes:

• youth can identify with more than one group
• not all indicators are collected by all partners

Target(s): specific targets for each participating partner are included in the performance table below.

Performance highlights:

• 97,514^{Footnote i} youth were served through the horizontal YESS
• ESDC YESS Program served 9,686 youth. Of those, 47% were employed and 10% had returned to school following their participation. Approximately 20% of youth served were Indigenous youth, 47% visible minority youth and 17% youth had a disability.
• the Canada Summer Jobs Program offered job opportunities to 72,779 youth out of which 35% were employed and 63.8% had returned to school following their participation to the program.

Contact information:

Lori Brooks, Director General
Workforce and Skills Development Policy Directorate
Skills and Employment Branch
Telephone: 1-819-431-8395
Email: lori.brooks@hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca
Place du Portage, Phase IV
140 Promenade du Portage
Gatineau QC

Performance information

Federal department: Employment and Social Development Canada

Link to the department's Program Inventory: Youth Employment and Skills Strategy

Horizontal initiative activities: Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Program

Total federal allocation since the last renewal: $3,167.070 million

2024 to 2025 Planned spending (dollars): $140.87 million

2024 to 2025 Actual spending (dollars): $144.1 million

2024 to 2025 expected results: youth have access to programs that allow them to acquire the skills, learning experiences, and opportunities they need to find and maintain employments or return to school

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: number of youth served

• targets: 5,240
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 9,686

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth employed/self-employed

• targets: 50%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 47.2%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth returned to school

• targets: 10%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 9.8%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth served who are facing barriers to employment

• targets:
  • Indigenous: 20%
  • visible minority:
    • 36%
  • youth with a disability: 20%
  • youth living in rural and remote areas: not available
  • youth living in official language minority communities: not available^{Footnote ii}
  • women: not available
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025

• actual results:
  • Indigenous: 20.5%
  • visible minority: 47.2%
  • youth with a disability: 16.9%
  • youth living in rural and remote areas:12.2%
  • youth living in official language minority communities: 5.2%
  • women: 44.4%

Federal department: Employment and Social Development Canada

Link to the department's Program Inventory: Youth Employment and Skills Strategy

Horizontal initiative activities: Canada Summer Jobs

Total federal allocation since the last renewal: $3,552.50 million

2024 to 2025 Planned spending (dollars): $323.301 million

2024 to 2025 Actual spending (dollars): $332.9 million

2024 to 2025 Expected results: youth have access to programs that allow them to acquire the skills, learning experiences, and opportunities they need to find and maintain employment or return to school

2024 to 2025 Performance indicators: number of youth served

• targets: 70,000
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 72,779

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth employed/self-employed

• targets: 20%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 35%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth returned to school

• targets: 80%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 63.8%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth served who are facing barriers to employment

• targets:
  • Indigenous: 7.5%
  • visible minority: 20%
  • youth with a disability: 10%
  • women: 60%

• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results:
  • Indigenous: 8.2%
  • visible minority: 24.8%
  • youth with a disability: 4.5%
  • women: 61.4%

Federal department: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Link to the department's Program Inventory: Sector Engagement and Development

Horizontal initiative activities: Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Program

Total federal allocation since the last renewal: $60.668 million

2024 to 2025 Planned spending (dollars): $13.468 million

2024 to 2025 Actual spending (dollars): $12.8 million

2024 to 2025 Expected results: youth have access to programs that allow them to acquire the skills, learning experiences, and opportunities they need to find andmaintain employment or return to school

2024 to 2025 Performance indicators: number of youth served

• targets: 1,000
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 1,118

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth employed/self-employed

• targets: 63%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 38.3%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth returned to school

• targets: 43%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 32.2%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth served who are facing barriers to employment

• targets:
  • rural: 60%
  • Indigenous: 9%
  • visible minority: approximately 8%
  • youth with a disability: 3%
  • youth living in official minority communities: 1%
  • women: 47%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results:
  • Indigenous: 31.6%
  • visible minority: 42.9%
  • youth with a disability: 40.8%

Federal department: Canadian Heritage

Link to the department's Program Inventory: Young Canada Works Initiative (YCW)

Horizontal initiative activities: Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Program

Total federal allocation since the last renewal: $175.013 million

2024 to 2025 Planned spending (dollars): $16.213 million

2024 to 2025 Actual spending (dollars): $15,976,294

• $5,408,419 (Official Languages [OL])
• $10,567,875 (Preservation and Access to Heritage [Heritage])

2024 to 2025 Expected results: youth have access to programs that allow them to acquire the skills, learning experiences, and opportunities they need to find and maintain employment or return to school

2024 to 2025 Performance indicators: number of youth served

• targets: 1,636
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results:
  • 761
  • OL: 724
  • heritage: 1,037

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth employed/self-employed

• targets: not applicable^{Footnote iii}
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: not applicable

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth returned to school

• targets: not applicableiii
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: not applicable

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth served who are facing barriers to employment

• targets:
• YCW - OL:
  • Indigenous: 5%
  • visible minority: 35%
  • youth with a disability: 5%
  • youth living in official language minority communities: 50%
  • youth living in rural and remote communities: 10%
  • women: 65%
• YCW - Heritage:
  • Indigenous: 7%
  • visible minority: 15%
  • youth with a disability: 8%
  • youth living in official language minority communities: 6%
  • youth living in rural and remote areas: 10%
  • women: 65%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results:
  • YCW - OL:
    • Indigenous: 6%
    • visible minority: 26%
    • youth with a disability: 12%
    • youth living in official language minority communities: 50%
    • youth living in rural and remote communities: 19%
    • women: 67%
  • YCW - Heritage:
    • Indigenous: 6%
    • visible minority: 18%
    • youth with a disability: 18%
    • youth living in official language minority communities: 6%
    • youth living in rural and remote areas: 11%
    • women: 70%

Federal department: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Link to the department's Program Inventory: Housing Internship for First Nations and Inuit Youth

Horizontal initiative activities: Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Program

Total federal allocation since the last renewal: $40.095 million

2024 to 2025 Planned spending (dollars): $4.695 million

2024 to 2025 Actual spending (dollars): $5.8 million

2024 to 2025 Expected results: youth have access to programs that allow them to acquire the skills, learning experiences, and opportunities they need to find and maintain employment or return to school

2024 to 2025 Performance indicators: number of youth served

• targets: 244
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 392

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth employed/self-employed

• targets: 20%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 41.6%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth returned to school

• targets: 10%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 15.1%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth served who are facing barriers to employment

• targets: Indigenous 100%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: Indigenous: 100%

Federal department: Environment and Climate Change Canada

Link to the department's Program Inventory: Science Horizons Internship Program

Horizontal initiative activities: Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Program

Total federal allocation since the last renewal: $112.601 million

2024 to 2025 Planned spending (dollars): $18.601 million

2024 to 2025 Actual spending (dollars): $18.5 million

2024 to 2025 Expected results: youth have access to programs that allow them to acquire the skills, learning experiences, and opportunities they need to find and maintain employment or return to school

2024 to 2025 Performance indicators: number of youth served

• targets: 581
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 693

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth employed/self-employed

• targets: 80%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 80.4%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth returned to school

• targets: 6%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 5%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth served who are facing barriers to employment

• targets:
  • Indigenous: 2.1%
  • visible minority: 20%
  • youth with a disability: 2.1%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results:
  • Indigenous: 4.6%
  • visible minority: 28.1%
  • youth with a disability: 12.1%

Federal department: Global Affairs Canada

Link to the department's Program Inventory: International Youth Internship Program

Horizontal initiative activities: Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Program

Total federal allocation since the last renewal: $155.000 million

2024 to 2025 Planned spending (dollars): $6.400 million

2024 to 2025 Actual spending (dollars): $6.2 million

2024 to 2025 Expected results: youth have access to programs that allow them to acquire the skills, learning experiences, and opportunities they need to find and maintain employment or return to school

2024 to 2025 Performance indicators: number of youth served

• targets: 158
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 98

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth employed/self-employed

• targets: 51%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 45.1%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth returned to school

• targets: 32%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 27.4%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth returned to school

• targets:
  • Indigenous: 28%
  • visible minority: 44%
  • youth with a disability: 22%

• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025

• actual results:
  • Indigenous: 31.6%
  • visible minority: 42.9%
  • youth with a disability: 40.8%

Federal department: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada

Link to the department's Program Inventory: Settlement Program

Horizontal initiative activities: Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Program

Total federal allocation since the last renewal: $16.800 million^{Footnote iv}

2024 to 2025 Planned spending (dollars): $0

2024 to 2025 Actual spending (dollars): $0

2024 to 2025 Expected results: youth have access to programs that allow them to acquire the skills, learning experiences, and opportunities they need to find and maintain employment or return to school

2024 to 2025 Performance indicators: number of youth served

• targets: 4,000
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 7,548

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth employed/self-employed

• targets: 75%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 70%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth returned to school

• targets: not applicable^{Footnote v}
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: not applicable^{Footnote v}

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth served who are facing barriers to employment

• targets: 100%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 100%

Federal department: Indigenous Services Canada

Link to the department's Program Inventory: First Nations and Inuit Youth Employment Strategy

Horizontal initiative activities: Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Program

Total federal allocation since the last renewal: $709.758 million

2024 to 2025 Planned spending (dollars): $87.558 million

2024 to 2025 Actual spending (dollars): $85,609,026

2024 to 2025 Expected results: youth have access to programs that allow them to acquire the skills, learning experiences, and opportunities they need to find and maintain employment or return to school

2024 to 2025 Performance indicators: number of youth served

• targets: 8,295
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 6,030^{Footnote vi}

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth employed/self-employed

• targets: 29%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 16.3%^{Footnote vi}

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth returned to school

• targets: 31%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 9.7%^{Footnote vi}

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth served who are facing barriers to employment

• targets: Indigenous: 100%

• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 100%^{Footnote vi}

Federal department: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

Link to the department's Program Inventory: Digital Skills for Youth

Horizontal initiative activities: Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Program

Total federal allocation since the last renewal: $97.336 million

2024 to 2025 Planned spending (dollars): $6.05 million^{Footnote vii}

2024 to 2025 Actual spending (dollars): $8.1 million

2024 to 2025 Expected results: youth have access to programs that allow them to acquire the skills, learning experiences, and opportunities they need to find and maintain employment or return to school

2024 to 2025 Performance indicators: number of youth served

• targets: 179
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 400

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth employed/self-employed

• targets: 40%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 71.7%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth returned to school

• targets: Less than 5%^{Footnote viii}
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 8.2%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth served who are facing barriers to employment

• targets:
  • Indigenous: 5%
  • visible minority: 25%
  • youth with a disability: 3%
  • Women: 50%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results:
  • Indigenous: 6%
  • visible minority: 28%
  • youth with a disability: 11.3%
  • women: 42%

Federal department: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

Link to the department's Program Inventory: Computers for Schools Intern Program

Horizontal initiative activities: Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Program

Total federal allocation since the last renewal: $230.200 million

2024 to 2025 Planned spending (dollars): $4.782 millionvii

2024 to 2025 Actual spending (dollars): $4.5 million

2024 to 2025 Expected results: youth have access to programs that allow them to acquire the skills, learning experiences, and opportunities they need to find and maintain employment or return to school

2024 to 2025 Performance indicators: number of youth served

• targets: 148
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 189

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth employed/self-employed

• targets: 15%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 47.1%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth returned to school

• targets: 10%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 17.5%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth served who are facing barriers to employment

• targets:
  • Indigenous: 5%
  • visible minority: 30%
  • youth with a disability: 3.5%
  • Women: 20%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results:
  • Indigenous: 2.6%
  • visible minority: 46.6%
  • youth with a disability: 9.5%
  • women: 20.6%

Federal department: National Research Council

Link to the department's Program Inventory: Industrial Research Assistance Program

Horizontal initiative activities: Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Program

Total federal allocation since the last renewal: $194.673 million

2024 to 2025 Planned spending (dollars): $22.673 million

2024 to 2025 Actual spending (dollars): $21.8 million

2024 to 2025 Expected results: have access to programs that allow them to acquire the skills, learning experiences, and opportunities they need to find and maintain employment or return to school

2024 to 2025 Performance indicators: number of youth served

• targets: 703
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 839

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth employed/self-employed

• targets: 75%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 86%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth returned to school

• targets: not applicable^{Footnote ix}
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: not applicable^{Footnote viii}

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth served who are facing barriers to employment

• targets:
  • Indigenous: 3%
  • visible minority: 25%
  • youth with a disability: 3%
  • youth living in rural and remote areas: 2%
  • youth living in official language minority communities: 2%
  • women 50%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results:
  • Indigenous: 2%
  • visible minorities: 32%
  • youth with a disability: 5%
  • youth living in rural and remote areas: 4%
  • youth living in official language minority communities: 7%
  • women: 53%

Federal department: Natural Resources Canada

Link to the department's Program Inventory: Science and Technology Internship Program - Green Jobs

Horizontal initiative activities: Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Program

Total federal allocation since the last renewal: $76.100 million

2024 to 2025 Planned spending (dollars): $15.600 million

2024 to 2025 Actual spending (dollars): $15.7 million

2024 to 2025 Expected results: youth have access to programs that allow them to acquire the skills, learning experiences, and opportunities they need to find and maintain employment or return to school

2024 to 2025 Performance indicators: number of youth served

• targets: 480
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 653

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth employed/self-employed

• targets: 70%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 78%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth returned to school

• targets: 5%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 13%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth served who are facing barriers to employment

• targets:
  • Indigenous: 15%
  • youth with a disability: 5%
  • visible minority: 20%
  • Youth living in rural and remote areas: 10%
  • Women: 50%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results:
  • Indigenous: 28%
  • youth with a disability: 14%
  • visible minority youth:27%
  • youth living in rural and remote areas: 51%
  • women: 52%

Federal department: Parks Canada

Link to the department's Program Inventory: Young Canada Works

Horizontal initiative activities: Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Program

Total federal allocation since the last renewal: $81.740 million

2024 to 2025 Planned spending (dollars): $14.940 million

2024 to 2025 Actual spending (dollars): $17.4 million

2024 to 2025 Expected results: youth have access to programs that allow them to acquire the skills, learning experiences, and opportunities they need to find and maintain employment or return to school

2024 to 2025 Performance indicators: number of youth served

• targets: 1,142
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 1,358

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth employed/self-employed

• targets: 100%
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 23.6%

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth returned to school

• targets: not applicable
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results: 66%^{Footnote xx}

2024 to 2025 performance indicators: percentage of youth served who are facing barriers to employment

• targets:
  • 45% self-identify as being part of one of the following employment equity categories:
  • Indigenous
  • visible minority
  • youth with a disability
• date to achieve target: March 31, 2025
• actual results:
  • Indigenous:17.3%
  • visible Minorities: 14.9%
  • youth with a disability: 14.5%

Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care Transformation Initiative

General Information

Name of horizontal initiative: Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care Transformation Initiative

Lead department: Employment and Social Development Canada

Federal partner organizations: Indigenous Services Canada, Public Health Agency of Canada, Crown Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

Start date of the horizontal initiative: September 2018

End date of the horizontal initiative: ongoing

Description of the horizontal initiative:

• the Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care (IELCC) Transformation Initiative supports the implementation of the co-developed IELCC Framework. This Framework reflects the unique cultures and priorities of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Nation children across Canada. The initiative enables greater control in IELCC through a partnership model that facilitates Indigenous-led decision making and advances national and regional priorities
• the IELCC Transformation Initiative provides for investments in a wide range of programs and services including Aboriginal Head Start and Child Care programming as well as governance and infrastructure. This initiative enhances early childhood development and school readiness for Indigenous children regardless of where they live
• ESDC is the federal lead department guiding this horizontal initiative, with Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), and Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) as key federal partners

Governance Structures: oversight of this horizontal initiative is provided through a collaborative structure that includes:

• the Director General Interdepartmental Commitee (DGIC), which is composed of Director Generals from federal partner organizations. It oversees the implementation of the IELCC Transformation Initiative, supported by the IELCC Secretariat housed in ESDC.; and
• the Federal Working Group on Reporting which coordinates work to co-develop results frameworks for the initiative with Indigenous partners.
• ad-hoc working groups are established to advance joint priorities and/or co-development activities with IELCC Partnership Tables and other federal partner departments on topical themes.
• the implementation of the IELCC Transformation Initiative is also supported by national and regional Partnership Tables with First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation governments and organizations and their representatives to facilitate Indigenous-led planning, priority setting, and decision-making. The interests of urban and northern Indigenous communities will continue to be represented in collaboration with the National Aboriginal Head Start Council.

Total federal funding allocated (from start to end date) (dollars): $7,018,936,433 over 10 years with $904 million ongoing^{Footnote xi}

Total federal planned spending to date (dollars): $4,032,383,672 over 7 years^{Footnote xii}

Total federal actual spending to date (dollars): $3,636,285,792^{Footnote xiii}

Date of last renewal of the horizontal initiative: The Horizontal Initiative was made

permanent and ongoing in the 2020 Fall Economic Statement

Total federal funding allocated at the last renewal, and source of funding (dollars): renewal: not applicable

Additional funding of $145 million over 5 years (fiscal year 2021-2022 to fiscal year 2025-2026) and $15 million ongoing from the 2020 Fall Economic Statement when the Initiative was made permanent and ongoing

Additional federal funding received after the last renewal (dollars): budget 2021 announced an additional $2.5 billion and $542 million ongoing

Total planned spending since the last renewal: not applicable (Included in planned spending to date)

Total actual spending since the last renewal: not applicable (Included in planned spending to date)

Fiscal year of planned completion of next evaluation:

• the Horizontal IELCC Evaluation was completed in fiscal year 2024 to 2025.
• the Summative Evaluation of the IELCC Transformation Initiative is planned for completion in fiscal year 2027 to 2028.
• the evaluation is to be advanced through collaboration with Indigenous partners.

Shared outcome of federal partner departments:

• increase Indigenous influence and control over IELCC programs and services
• support IELCC priorities, including those in urban and northern communities
• strengthen foundational supports for IELCC enhance horizontal coordination of federal programs and investments

Performance highlights: the department worked with federal partners, Indigenous Services Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, to strengthen over 65 relationships with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Nation and Northern Affairs Canada, to strengthen over 65 relationships with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Nation partners. Together, we advanced their early learning and child care priorities, particularly in programs and services, governance, and infrastructure. Joint results frameworks have been co-developed with Indigenous partners, based on the principles, goals and distinctions-based priorities outlined in the IELCC Framework. Implementation of the results frameworks is intended to begin in 2025 to 2026.

Contact information:

Eric Grant, Director General
IELCC Secretariat
Income Security and Social Development Branch
Employment and Social Development Canada

Cell: 613-864-5983

eric.grant@hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca