Gender-Based Analysis Plus Supplementary Information Table

Introduction

Gender-based analysis plus (GBA+) is an analytical process used to assess how diverse groups of women, men and gender-diverse people experience policies, programs and services based on multiple factors including race, ethnicity, religion, age, and mental or physical disability.

The federal government has been committed to using GBA+ in the development of policies, programs and legislation since 1995. It provides federal officials with the means to continually improve their work and attain better results for Canadians by being more responsive to specific needs and circumstances.

In response to recommendations from the 2015 report of the Auditor General of Canada, the government renewed its commitment to GBA+ and mandated the Minister for the Status of Women to work with the President of the Treasury Board to ensure that GBA+ is incorporated into Departmental Results Frameworks, Departmental Plans and Departmental Results Reports, and performance reporting.

In 2018, Parliament passed the Canadian Gender Budgeting Act. The Departmental Plans and Departmental Results Reports are being used to fulfill the President of the Treasury Board’s obligations to make public analysis of the impacts of expenditure programs on gender and diversity.

GBA+ supplementary information table

The following table provides information on the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat’s (TBS’s) capacity for GBA+ and on how TBS plans to improve the governance of GBA+ at TBS. It also provides the following information for each of TBS’s programs, as applicable:

a link to the GC InfoBase page for the program, which provides a description of the program’s activities
whether the program has impacts that support the Gender Results Framework, and which pillars and goals of the framework it supports
whether the program collects sufficient data to enable it to monitor and report on the impacts of the program on diverse groups of people
actions or initiatives that enable or expand the program’s capacity to monitor and report on the impacts of the program on diverse groups of people in the future

Institutional GBA+ capacity
EMS on behalf of GBA+ Co-Champions	When departments seek Treasury Board approval for new spending proposals or authorities, they must include plans for conducting GBA+. TBS reviews the analysis that departments provide and advises Treasury Board ministers on the gender and diversity implications of approving proposals. All TBS managers and analysts are responsible for supporting GBA+ implementation in their roles, as appropriate. In addition, TBS has designated a GBA+ champion at the assistant deputy minister level, and since 2019 this person has been supported by an employee co-champion. Together, the two champions: promote the value of GBA+ in informing Cabinet decision-making provide guidance to TBS’s senior managers on their responsibilities with respect to GBA+ promote training for TBS employees so that they can incorporate GBA+ into carrying out TBS’s challenge function promote the value of GBA+ in and outside TBS through, for example, GBA+ Awareness Week, speaking engagements, and presentations to internal and external management committees In 2021–22, TBS will focus on the following key activities to support GBA+ governance: working through the advisory committee on learning, led by a champion, to determine the learning needs of the various functional communities at TBS, including the need for GBA+ training continuing the consultation of operational and governance committees at TBS about how TBS will meet its GBA+ responsibilities and how it will report on the extent to which GBA+ is included in decision-making allocating time on the agendas of meetings of the Public Service Management Advisory Committee for the Deputy Minister of Women and Gender Equality to consult fellow deputy ministers on the status of government-wide implementation of GBA+ and its impacts on legislative, policy and program initiatives

Institutional GBA+ capacity

EMS on behalf of GBA+ Co-Champions

When departments seek Treasury Board approval for new spending proposals or authorities, they must include plans for conducting GBA+. TBS reviews the analysis that departments provide and advises Treasury Board ministers on the gender and diversity implications of approving proposals.

All TBS managers and analysts are responsible for supporting GBA+ implementation in their roles, as appropriate. In addition, TBS has designated a GBA+ champion at the assistant deputy minister level, and since 2019 this person has been supported by an employee co-champion. Together, the two champions:

promote the value of GBA+ in informing Cabinet decision-making
provide guidance to TBS’s senior managers on their responsibilities with respect to GBA+
promote training for TBS employees so that they can incorporate GBA+ into carrying out TBS’s challenge function
promote the value of GBA+ in and outside TBS through, for example, GBA+ Awareness Week, speaking engagements, and presentations to internal and external management committees

In 2021–22, TBS will focus on the following key activities to support GBA+ governance:

working through the advisory committee on learning, led by a champion, to determine the learning needs of the various functional communities at TBS, including the need for GBA+ training
continuing the consultation of operational and governance committees at TBS about how TBS will meet its GBA+ responsibilities and how it will report on the extent to which GBA+ is included in decision-making
allocating time on the agendas of meetings of the Public Service Management Advisory Committee for the Deputy Minister of Women and Gender Equality to consult fellow deputy ministers on the status of government-wide implementation of GBA+ and its impacts on legislative, policy and program initiatives

Spending Oversight
Program	GBA+ Results Reporting Capacity
Program	Does this program have impacts that support the pillars and goals of the Gender Results Framework?	Does this program collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and report on its impacts by gender and diversity?	Actions or initiatives to enable or expand the program’s capacity to monitor and report on its impacts by gender and diversity in the future
Table 1 Notes Table 1 Note 1 This is being done in consultation with the Minister of Finance, as is required under the act. Return to table 1 note 1 referrer
Expenditure Data, Analysis, Results, and Reviews	Yes Pillar: Education and skills development Goal: Equal opportunities and diversified paths in education and skills development Pillar: Economic participation and prosperity Goal: Equal and full participation in the economy Pillar: Leadership and democratic participation Goal: Gender equality in leadership roles and at all levels of decision-making Pillar: Gender-based violence and access to justice Goal: Eliminating gender-based violence and harassment, and promoting security of the person and access to justice Pillar: Poverty reduction, health and well-being Goal: Reduced poverty and improved health outcomes Pillar: Gender equality around the world Goal: Promoting gender equality to build a more peaceful, inclusive, rules-based and prosperous world	Yes	The program requires organizations to incorporate GBA+ into their performance indicators and evaluations. It also: provides guidance documents and advice to organizations on how to integrate GBA+ into their Treasury Board submissions, Departmental Plans and Departmental Results Reports develops guidance for organizations on reporting the impacts of their programs on diverse groups of people, in accordance with the requirements of section 5 of the Canadian Gender Budgeting Act^{table 1 note 1} monitors the capacity of organizations across government to measure the impacts of their programs on diverse groups of people, based on their Departmental Results Reports and direct consultation develops frameworks to encourage organizations to collect suitable administrative data to support their GBA+ reporting responsibilities and requirements contributes to the development of training materials to support the effective inclusion of GBA+ in Treasury Board submissions, Estimates documents, program evaluations and programs’ Performance Information Profiles
Government-Wide Funds	Yes Pillar: Education and skills development Goal: Equal opportunities and diversified paths in education and skills development Pillar: Economic participation and prosperity Goal: Equal and full participation in the economy Pillar: Leadership and democratic participation Goal: Gender equality in leadership roles and at all levels of decision-making Pillar: Gender-based violence and access to justice Goal: Eliminating gender-based violence and harassment, and promoting security of the person and access to justice Pillar: Poverty reduction, health and well-being Goal: Reduced poverty and improved health outcomes Pillar: Gender equality around the world Goal: Promoting gender equality to build a more peaceful, inclusive, rules-based and prosperous world	Yes	The results indicator for the Government-Wide Funds program is the percentage of allocations and payments. The program implements Treasury Board decisions that call for allocations to be made from the central votes. The allocations directly support the implementation of programs, initiatives and processes that all have their own GBA+ considerations. Details on allocations from the central votes are published as part of the online reporting process for the Supplementary Estimates throughout the year.
Oversight and Treasury Board Support	Yes Pillar: Education and skills development Goal: Equal opportunities and diversified paths in education and skills development Pillar: Economic participation and prosperity Goal: Equal and full participation in the economy Pillar: Leadership and democratic participation Goal: Gender equality in leadership roles and at all levels of decision-making Pillar: Gender-based violence and access to justice Goal: Eliminating gender-based violence and harassment, and promoting security of the person and access to justice Pillar: Poverty reduction, health and well-being Goal: Reduced poverty and improved health outcomes Pillar: gender equality around the world Goal: Promoting gender equality to build a more peaceful, inclusive, rules-based and prosperous world	No	To advance how departments and agencies incorporate GBA+ into their proposed policies and programs, Treasury Board Secretariat is taking a multi-step approach in their challenge function role and providing guidance to departments on GBA+. The program has implemented a new template for Treasury Board submissions where GBA+ is integrated into all aspects of the proposal, from program design, delivery, and implementation. Working-level GBA+ champions in each program sector have been identified and meet regularly as a working group to advance GBA+ in the due diligence review of Treasury Board submissions. In addition to the GBA+ training provided by WAGE, the program is developing guidance materials for analysts that review GBA+ information reflected in the program design and implementation sections of the Treasury Board submissions.

Administrative Leadership
Program	GBA+ Results Reporting Capacity
Program	Does this program have impacts that support the pillars and goals of the Gender Results Framework?	Does this program collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and report on its impacts by gender and diversity?	Actions or initiatives to enable or expand the program’s capacity to monitor and report on its impacts by gender and diversity in the future
Acquired Services and Assets Policies and Initiatives	Yes Pillar: Economic participation and prosperity Goal: Equal and full participation in the economy Pillar: Leadership and democratic participation Goal: Gender equality in leadership roles and at all levels of decision-making Pillar: Gender equality around the world Goal: Promoting gender equality to build a more peaceful, inclusive, rules‑based and prosperous world	No	The program is: reviewing program-level indicators to identify opportunities to add considerations relating to impacts on diverse groups of people exploring strategies for collecting information on gender and diversity as it relates to the management of procurement continuing to monitor improvements in third‑party data from partners (for example, demographic assessments), which will result in better monitoring of GBA+ in the federal government’s real property, procurement, materiel management, and project management communities considering diversity and inclusion in professional development initiatives, such as collective recruitment and the Comptrollership Leadership Development Program
Canadian Digital Service	No	Yes	The program collects GBA+-related data as part of its design research and usability testing practices for all of its products and services.
Communications and Federal Identity Policies and Initiatives	No	No	The program is exploring opportunities to collect data on its impacts on diverse groups of people. It may conduct surveys of heads of communications and of other federal communications officials.
Digital Policy	Yes Pillar: Economic participation and prosperity Goal: Equal and full participation in the economy Pillar: Leadership and democratic participation Goal: Gender equality in leadership roles and at all levels of decision-making Pillar: Gender-based violence and Access to Justice Goal: Eliminating gender-based violence and harassment, and promoting security of the person and access to justice Pillar: Poverty reduction, health and well-being Goal: Reduced poverty and improved health outcomes Pillar: Gender equality around the world Goal: Promoting gender equality to build a more peaceful, inclusive, rules‑based and prosperous world	Yes	The program collects data on its impacts on diverse groups of people through the Citizens First survey and the Government of Canada Service Inventory. It is also: developing an open‑government maturity model to help government institutions track and report on their progress in priority areas, including those relating to GBA+ partnering with departments such as Women and Gender Equality Canada and Statistics Canada to explore innovative practices that combine inclusion and open data
Digital Strategy, Planning, and Oversight	Yes Pillar: Education and skills development Goal: Equal opportunities and diversified paths in education and skills development Pillar: Leadership and democratic participation Goal: Gender equality in leadership roles and at all levels of decision-making Pillar: Gender equality around the world Goal: Promoting gender equality to build a more peaceful, inclusive, rules-based and prosperous world	No	The program is: developing federal data standards to enable data interoperability across the federal government, which will include standards for sex and gender data, which would improve capacity for GBA+ considering the intersectional impacts of the Government of Canada digital identity program, which aims to give users a consistent authentication experience when they log into Government of Canada services, specifically the needs of marginalized, diverse populations that face barriers in accessing government services in remote areas adding new commitments in the performance management agreements of chief information officers in 2020–21 to increase the representation of women and diversity groups in the information management and information technology and cybersecurity community providing leadership and mentorship opportunities to women, non‑binary people, and gender‑diverse people in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) careers in both the public sector and the private sector at the beginning of their careers through the Dr. Roberta Bondar STEM Career Development Program
Financial Management Policies and Initiatives	No	No	To enable future consideration of gender and diversity in policy development, continue to refine and formalize the internal policy development process to include considerations of systemic inequalities, where appropriate, in a financial management context.
Financial Management Transformation	No	No	Not applicable. The program is working to provide better business processes and software technology to help departments modernize their comptrollership function.
Greening Government Operations	No	No	Not applicable. This program is limited to greening internal government operations and will not unduly impact diverse groups of women or gender‑diverse people.
Internal Audit Policies and Initiatives	Yes Pillar: Leadership and democratic participation Goal: Gender equality in leadership roles and at all levels of decision-making	Yes	The program collects demographic data using a self‑identification form to help strengthen the representativeness of the government’s departmental audit committees. It is also obtaining more specific information from the quantitative and qualitative data collected annually on the performance and capacity of the internal audit functions across government, which may provide insights on talent management, and on other elements where GBA+ could come into play (for example, whether there are differences relating to gender or to other identity factors between people who have a professional designation and those who do not).
Management Accountability Framework	No	No	The program is exploring ways to collect data from departments on the outcomes of their diversity and inclusion efforts on different identity groups in areas such as results management, security management, and service management, to encourage a broader range of management practices that foster diversity and equity.
Public Service Accessibility	Yes Pillar: Economic participation and prosperity Goal: Equal and full participation in the economy	Yes	The program uses public service administrative and survey data to monitor and report on gender and diversity impacts. It also administers the Centralized Enabling Workplace Fund, which invests in research, tools and innovation aimed at improving workplace accommodation practices and removing barriers that create a need for accommodation.

Employer
Program	GBA+ Results Reporting Capacity
Program	Does this program have impacts that support the pillars and goals of the Gender Results Framework?	Does this program collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and report on its impacts by gender and diversity?	Actions or initiatives to enable or expand the program’s capacity to monitor and report on its impacts by gender and diversity in the future
Employment Conditions and Labour Relations	Yes Pillar: Economic participation and prosperity Goal: Equal and full participation in the economy	Yes	The program uses public service administrative and survey data and research to monitor, report and assess gender and diversity impacts. Going forward, the program will: Continue to expand its capacity to analyze disaggregated data in order to identify issues and trends using a GBA+ lens, leveraging external expertise and best practices. Maintain and strengthen its application of a GBA+ screen, including for accessibility, diversity and inclusion, to its policy instruments (including for terms and conditions of employment), processes and systems.
Executive and Leadership Development	Yes Pillar: Leadership and democratic participation Goal: Gender equality in leadership roles and at all levels of decision-making	Yes	The program uses public service administrative and survey data to monitor and report on gender and diversity. It is also strengthening the gender and diversity lens in the public service talent management strategy. Going forward, the program will: Continue to expand its capacity to analyze disaggregated data in order to identify issues and trends using a GBA+ lens, leveraging external expertise and best practices. Maintain and strengthen its application of a GBA+ screen, including for accessibility, diversity, and inclusion, to its policy instruments, processes, and systems.
Pension and Benefits Management	Yes Pillar: Economic participation and prosperity Goal: Equal and full participation in the economy Pillar: Poverty Reduction, Health and Well-being Goal: Reduced poverty and improved health outcomes	Yes	The program uses public service administrative and plan member survey data to assess impacts of the pension and benefit plans on diverse groups of people. Going forward, the program will: Continue to expand its capacity to analyze disaggregated data in order to identify issues and trends using a GBA+ lens, leveraging external expertise and best practices. Maintain and strengthen its application of a GBA+ screen, including for accessibility, diversity and inclusion, to its policy instruments, processes, and systems.
People Management Systems and Processes	No	Yes	The program uses administrative data from the Public Service Performance Management and Executive Talent Management System applications to monitor and report on its impacts on diverse groups of people. It will also be: conducting GBA+ on the employee performance management and talent management program in 2021–22, subject to resource availability setting diversity goals for the methodologies to be used to engage employees in the development of the next generation human resources and pay system to ensure that representation of the diversity of the federal government workforce, including the four designated employment equity groups
Public Service Employer Payments	Yes Pillar: Poverty reduction, health and well-being Goal: Reduced poverty and improved health outcomes	No	Not applicable. The program provides funding to supplement appropriations for programs such as the Pension and Benefits Management program, which collects its own data for GBA+.
Research, Planning and Renewal	No	Yes	The program uses data from the Public Service Employee Survey to monitor and report on its impacts on diverse groups of people. Going forward, the program will: Continue to expand its capacity to gather and analyze disaggregated data in order to identify issues and trends using a GBA+ lens, leveraging external expertise and best practices. Maintain and strengthen its application of a GBA+ screen, including for accessibility, diversity and inclusion to its processes and systems.
Workplace Policies and Services	Yes Pillar: Economic participation and prosperity Goal: Equal and full participation in the economy Pillar: Gender-based violence and access to justice Goal: Eliminating gender-based violence and harassment, and promoting security of the person and access to justice Pillar: Poverty reduction, health and well-being Goal: Reduced poverty and improved health outcomes	Yes	The program uses public service administrative and survey data to monitor and report on gender and diversity. It is also strengthening the GBA+ lens in the diversity and inclusion strategy to achieve a representative and inclusive public service. Going forward, the program will: Continue to expand its capacity to analyze disaggregated data in order to identify issues and trends using a GBA+ lens, leveraging external expertise and best practices. Maintain and strengthen its application of a GBA+ screen, including for accessibility, diversity and inclusion, to its policy instruments, processes and systems.

Regulatory Oversight
Program	GBA+ Results Reporting Capacity
Program	Does this program have impacts that support the pillars and goals of the Gender Results Framework?	Does this program collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and report on its impacts by gender and diversity?	Actions or initiatives to enable or expand the program’s capacity to monitor and report on its impacts by gender and diversity in the future
Regulatory Policy, Oversight, and Cooperation	Yes Pillar: Education and skills development Goal: Equal opportunities and diversified paths in education and skills development Pillar: Economic participation and prosperity Goal: Equal and full participation in the economy Pillar: Leadership and democratic participation Goal: Gender equality in leadership roles and at all levels of decision-making Pillar: Gender-based violence and access to justice Goal: Eliminating gender-based violence and harassment, and promoting security of the person and access to justice Pillar: Poverty reduction, health and well-being Goal: Reduced poverty and improved health outcomes Pillar: Gender equality around the world Goal: Promoting gender equality to build a more peaceful, inclusive, rules-based and prosperous world	Yes	The Cabinet Directive on Regulation requires departments and agencies to undertake an assessment of the social and economic impacts of each regulatory proposal on diverse groups of Canadians, in accordance with the Government of Canada’s commitment to implementing GBA+. The program uses the regulatory impact analysis statements that must accompany each proposed and final regulation published in Canada Gazette to monitor and report on the program’s impacts on diverse groups of people. The program is also: aiming to implement new metrics and to begin reporting in 2022–23 applying a new process to capture demographic information for consultations, where appropriate, to monitor and improve the diversity of stakeholders engaged in these consultations

Internal Services
Program	GBA+ Results Reporting Capacity
Program	Does this program have impacts that support the pillars and goals of the Gender Results Framework?	Does this program collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and report on its impacts by gender and diversity?	Actions or initiatives to enable or expand the program’s capacity to monitor and report on its impacts by gender and diversity in the future
Table 2 Notes Table 2 Note 2 The focus in this table is on TBS’s Human Resources Management Services. Return to table 2 note 2 referrer
Internal services^{table 2 note 2}	No	Yes	TBS uses data from the Public Service Employee Survey and from its human resources management system to monitor and report on the impacts of the different internal services on diverse groups of people. TBS’s human resources data analytics capacity will be further enhanced by exploring additional data sources.

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