2022-23 Supplementary Information Tables

SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Development and implementation of a National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence

Lead and coordinate the implementation of the federal GBV Strategy

Within the UN’s Global Indicator Framework, the federal GBV Strategy and National Action Plan to End Gender-based Violence is expected to contribute, either directly or indirectly, to progress on:

• Target 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.
• Target 5.2: Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation.
• Target 5.3: Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation.
• Target 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life.
• Target 5.6: Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents for their review conferences.

Within the Canadian Indicator Framework, this programming is expected to contribute, either directly or indirectly, to progress on:

• Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Ambition: Eliminate gender-based violence and harassment
  • Ambition: Gender equality in leadership roles and at all levels of decision making
  • Ambition: Canadians share responsibilities within households and families.
• Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
  • Ambition: Canadians have access to quality jobs
• Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
  • Ambition: Canadians live free of discrimination and inequalities are reduced
• Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
  • Ambition: Canadians are safe and secure, in person and online,
  • Ambition: Canadians have equal access to justice,
  • Ambition: Canadians are supported by effective, accountable, and transparent institutions.

Lead a coordinated whole-of-government approach to promote a greater understanding of the intersection of sex and gender with other factors, which will result in more responsive federal policies and programs that systematically consider the needs of different groups of people.

Through the strengthened application of Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) across the federal government, this programming is expected to contribute, either directly or indirectly, to progress on all targets within the UN Global Indicator Framework under SDG5:

• Target 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
• Target 5.2: Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation
• Target 5.3: Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation
• Target 5.4: Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
• Target 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
• Target 5.6: Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences
• Target 5. a: Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
• Target 5. b: Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women
• Target 5.c: Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels

Within the Canadian Indicator Framework, it is therefore likely to contribute, either directly or indirectly, to progress on:

• Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Ambition: Eliminate gender-based violence and harassment
  • Ambition: Gender equality in leadership roles at all levels of decision making
  • Ambition: Canadians share responsibilities within households and families.
• Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
  • Ambition: Canadians have access to quality jobs
• Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
  • Ambition: Canadians live free of discrimination and inequalities are reduced
• Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
  • Ambition: Canadians have access to quality housing
• Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
  • Ambition: Canadians are safe and secure, in person and online, Ambition: Canadians have equal access to justice,
  • Ambition: Canadians are supported by effective, accountable, and transparent institutions.

Note: In addition, the application of GBA Plus helps ensure that all policies, programs, and legislation are more responsive to the needs of different groups of women, men and gender-diverse individuals. As such, strengthening GBA+ application across the federal government may also support Canada’s efforts to advance other sustainable development goals.

Promote community action through commemoration initiatives such as International Women’s Day, Gender Equality Week, Women’s History Month, International Day of the Girl, Persons Day, the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence, and the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia

These commemorative initiatives are expected to contribute, either directly or indirectly, to progress on all targets within the UN Global Indicator Framework related to SDG5.

• Target 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
• Target 5.2: Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation
• Target 5.3: Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation
• Target 5.4: Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
• Target 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
• Target 5. b: Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women
• Target 5.c: Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels

Within the Canadian Indicator Framework, these commemorative initiatives are expected to contribute, either directly or indirectly, to progress on:

• Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Ambition: Eliminate gender-based violence and harassment
  • Ambition: Gender equality in leadership roles at all levels of decision making
  • Ambition: Canadians share responsibilities within households and families.
• Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
  • Ambition: Canadians have access to quality jobs
• Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
  • Ambition: Canadians live free of discrimination and inequalities are reduced
• Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
  • Ambition: Canadians are safe and secure, in person and online, Ambition: Canadians have equal access to justice,
  • Ambition: Canadians are supported by effective, accountable, and transparent institutions.

Development and implementation of a federal LGBTQ2 Action Plan

Within the UN’s Global Indicator Framework, this plan is expected to contribute, either directly or indirectly, to progress on:

• Target 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
• Target 5.2: Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation
• Target 5.3: Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation
• Target 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
• Target 5.c: Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels

Within the Canadian Indicator Framework, this plan is expected to contribute, either directly or indirectly, to progress on:

• Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Ambition: Eliminate gender-based violence and harassment
  • Ambition: Gender equality in leadership roles at all levels of decision making
• Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
  • Ambition: Canadians have access to quality jobs
• Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
  • Ambition: Canadians live free of discrimination and inequalities are reduced
• Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
  • Ambition: Canadians have access to quality housing
• Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
  • Ambition: Canadians are safe and secure, in person and online, Ambition: Canadians have equal access to justice,
  • Ambition: Canadians are supported by effective, accountable, and transparent institutions.

SDG 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Develop and deliver programming to support projects that address systemic barriers to gender equality and to support the capacity and sustainability of women’s and equality-seeking organizations.

Within the UN’s Global Indicator Framework, this programming is expected to contribute, either directly or indirectly, to progress on:

• Target 8.2: Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors.
• Target 8.5: By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value.
• Target 8.6: By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training.
• Target 8.7: Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms.
• Target 8.8: Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment.
• Target 8.9: Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all.

Development and implementation of a federal LGBTQ2 Action Plan

Within the UN’s Global Indicator Framework, this plan is expected to contribute, either directly or indirectly, to progress on:

• Target 8.5: By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value.
• Target 8.6: By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training.
• Target 8.8: Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment.
• Target 8.9: Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all.

SDG 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries

Development and implementation of a National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence

Lead and coordinate the implementation of the federal GBV Strategy

Develop and deliver programming to support projects that address systemic barriers to gender equality and to support the capacity and sustainability of women’s and equality-seeking organizations, including LGBTQ2 organizations.

Lead a coordinated whole-of-government approach to promote a greater understanding of the intersection of sex and gender with other factors, which will result in more responsive federal policies and programs that systematically consider the needs of different groups of people.

Development and implementation of a federal LGBTQ2 Action Plan

Within the UN’s Global Indicator Framework, the federal GBV Strategy and National Action Plan to End Gender-based Violence is expected to contribute, either directly or indirectly, to progress on:

Target 10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status;

10.3 Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard

10.4 Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality

SDG 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Development and implementation of a National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence

Lead and coordinate the implementation of the federal GBV Strategy

Within the UN’s Global Indicator Framework, the GBV Strategy and National Action Plan to end GBV are expected to contribute, either directly or indirectly, to progress on:

• Target 16.1: Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere
• Target 16.2: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children
• Target 16.3: Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all

Develop and deliver programming to support projects that address systemic barriers to gender equality and to support the capacity and sustainability of women’s and equality-seeking organizations,

Within the UN’s Global Indicator Framework, this programming is expected to contribute, either directly or indirectly, to progress on:

• Target 16.1: Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere
• Target 16.2: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children
• Target 16.3: Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all
• Target 16.7: Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory, and representative decision-making at all levels.
• Target 16.b: Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development.

Development and implementation of a federal LGBTQ2 Action Plan

Within the UN’s Global Indicator Framework, this plan is expected to contribute, either directly or indirectly, to progress on:

• Target 16.1: Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere
• Target 16.2: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children
• Target 16.3: Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all
• Target 16.7: Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory, and representative decision-making at all levels.
• Target 16.b: Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development.

It’s Time: Canada’s Strategy to Prevent and Address Gender-Based Violence (the Strategy) is the Government of Canada’s response to gender-based violence (GBV). Its initiatives are organized across three pillars: preventing gender-based violence; supporting survivors and their families; and promoting responsive legal and justice systems. The Strategy takes a whole-of-government approach to prevent and address GBV, bringing together federal initiatives and aligning with provincial and territorial efforts, enabling enhanced collaboration. Women and Gender Equality Canada ensures the overall coordination of the Strategy through interdepartmental structures and policy dialogue with other key actors. In 2022-23, WAGE will build on the existing federal strategy and will align efforts with the Government’s commitments: (1) to develop and implement a National Action Plan to End GBV and (2) to address the findings of the National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, with concrete action, in collaboration with the lead Minister responsible, the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations.

The Government of Canada has invested a total of $786 million and $44 million per year ongoing, as follows:

• The Government of Canada initially invested nearly $220 million between 2017-18 and 2022-23, and $42.7 million per year ongoing starting in 2023-24, to launch and expand the Strategy. Funds allocated in 2017-18 included $100.9 million over five years, and $20.7 million per year ongoing, to support the implementation of the GBV Strategy.
• Budget 2021 allocated an additional $566 million over 5 years and an additional $1.3 million per year ongoing starting in 2021-22, including $97 million for new activities led by Justice Canada.

Overall, the Strategy advances shared outcomes through the following actions undertaken by the seven partner departments:

• Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) received funding to establish the GBV Knowledge Centre, enhance data collection and research on GBV, develop a strategy that engages youth about online GBV, fund the development and implementation of promising practices that support underserved survivors through the GBV Program, and work with stakeholders to develop and implement a framework to prevent and address GBV at post-secondary institutions (PSIs). With funding received through Budget 2021, WAGE is expanding upon this work by enhancing the capacity and responsiveness of organizations such as sexual assault centres, women’s shelters, and other organizations; enhancing the Gender-Based Violence Program to support initiatives that engage men and boys, stop human trafficking, and provide supporting for testing and implementing best practices;  establishing a dedicated Gender-Based Violence Secretariat to coordinate the ongoing work towards the development and implementation of the National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence; supporting GBV research and knowledge mobilization; and bolstering the capacity of Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ organizations to provide GBV prevention programming.
• Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) received funding to support the implementation and testing of programs to prevent gender-based violence and family violence (including child maltreatment, teen/youth dating violence, intimate partner violence, and elder abuse); and to support the development of training and resources for health and allied professionals about GBV, trauma-informed care, and safety planning.
• Public Safety Canada (PS) received funding to enhance efforts to address online child exploitation and develop preventative bullying and cyberbullying initiatives.
• Department of National Defence (DND) received funding as part of Budget 2017 to enhance Family Violence Teams and to provide support to community-based service providers to support members of the Canadian Armed Forces and their families who are affected by sexual misconduct.
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) received funding to develop training on cultural awareness and humility, and the use of trauma-informed approaches. These investments are improving capacity across the RCMP to effectively respond to those affected by violence in a gender and culturally sensitive and responsive manner, reinforce understanding of survivors' rights, and raise awareness of myths pertaining to sexual assaults. The RCMP also received funding to increase its capacity to combat online child sexual exploitation, in support of domestic and international operational investigations, covert online operations, specialized victim identification investigations, and operational research and technological solutions. The funding will also enhance capacity to identify Canadian transnational child sex offenders.
• Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) received funding to address GBV through enhancements to the Settlement Program, including developing a coordinated approach across the settlement sector, GBV training for settlement workers, and enhanced, place-based services for clients.
• Justice Canada (JUS) received funding to ensure access to free legal advice and legal representation for survivors of sexual assault and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), as well as to provide additional supports for victims of IPV to navigate the family justice system. In addition, JUS received funding to support supervision services for parenting time in cases of separation and divorce to protect the safety and well-being of children and families.

Learn more about the Strategy.

The strategy promotes a whole-of-government approach and includes membership of funded federal partners, and other complementary federal partners, who support the overarching goals of the Strategy. For example, by leading the horizontal coordination process on the GBV Strategy, WAGE is engaging its partners to ensure synergies with the Family Violence Initiative, led by the Public Health Agency of Canada, and the Interdepartmental Working Group on Violence and Victimization.

Horizontal Initiative Oversight Committee and Steering Committee

Federal efforts to prevent and address GBV are being undertaken by numerous federal departments and agencies, in order to address this issue from various angles. WAGE, as Canada’s policy lead on GBV efforts, is responsible for coordinating and overseeing the implementation of the Federal GBV Strategy and other federal efforts, in partnership and coordination with other federal partners. A federal oversight committee has been established at the Assistant Deputy Minister level, chaired by the Assistant Deputy Minister of WAGE, and comprised of all partner departments and agencies working to address GBV. This oversight committee is supported by a Steering Committee at the Director General level, representing all oversight committee member departments.

Secretariat for the National Action Plan to End Gender-based Violence

A dedicated Secretariat is being established at WAGE to coordinate the ongoing work towards the development and implementation of the National Action Plan to End Gender-based Violence, and to continue engagement with provinces, territories, municipalities, Indigenous peoples, gender-based violence experts, stakeholders and most importantly survivors of GBV.

The establishment of a Secretariat within WAGE will allow the Department to increase and consolidate its capacity within the federal government and strengthen governance, engagement, consultation and coordination with provincial and territorial governments, municipalities, Indigenous partners, and stakeholders including community-based stakeholders, researchers, and survivors.

The Secretariat will serve as a focal point for actions and policies related to GBV across Canada. It will directly support:

• Enhanced federal leadership, coordination, and governance through coordination with other federal departments; enhanced coordination with provinces and territories; stakeholder relations.
• Provision of strategic evidence-based direction, policy and program advice across the Government of Canada;
• Knowledge mobilization;
• Capacity to monitor results; and
• Development of a National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence.

Federal, Provincial/Territorial Forum of Ministers responsible for the Status of Women

The Federal-Provincial/Territorial (FPT) Forum of Ministers responsible for the Status of Women, which was established in 1972, meets annually at the ministerial level to share knowledge and information, explore ways to advance equality for women and girls, and undertake collaborative initiatives in priority areas, as agreed upon by consensus. One of these collaborative areas is preventing and addressing GBV. WAGE is the federal chair of the FPT Forum, and co-chairs with a provincial/territorial Minister Responsible for the Status of Women on a rotational basis. In addition to annual face-to-face meetings, ministerial teleconference occur on an ad hoc basis to discuss key issues. Senior officials-level meetings and conference calls are held throughout the year to advance collaborative work mandated by the ministers at the annual FPT Ministerial Meeting. To carry out the work set out at the annual FPT Ministerial Meeting, task teams made up of FPT officials are established. These task teams conduct their respective work/projects and report back to ministers the following year. A Task Team has been established to advance work related to GBV.

In 2022-23, WAGE will continue to operationalize the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Knowledge Centre and its online platform, launched in December 2018. As the focal point of the GBV Strategy, the GBV Knowledge Centre facilitates the alignment of existing federal resources, coordinates federal initiatives, supports the sharing of research and data, ensures alignment with provincial and territorial strategies, and accounts publicly for results. Over the reporting period, WAGE will:

• Further augment gender-based violence research and knowledge mobilization, with funding supporting community research models, working with Statistics Canada to develop a national femicide database, and enhancing the sample size of national gender-based violence surveys.
• Continue to advance towards a National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence, with the goal of ensuring that anyone facing gender-based violence in Canada has reliable and timely access to protection and services, no matter where they live.
• Continue to build upon its existing capacity in place for the federal Strategy to End Gender-Based Violence, which was launched in 2017, to establish a new Gender-Based Violence Secretariat.
• Continue to lead and coordinate the implementation of the federal GBV strategy, through the GBV Knowledge Centre to support evidence-based decision-making.
• Continue to provide funding to organizations in the GBV sector to support the development and implementation of promising practices to address gaps in supports for victims and survivors and their families.
• Continue to engage with funded and complementary federal departments to advance the Government of Canada efforts to end GBV.
• Maintain and expand the GBV Knowledge Centre's online platform by ensuring that content is accurate, updated and revised on an ongoing basis and adding evidence-based resources and products.
• Conclude a mid-term evaluation of the GBV Strategy.
• Support the implementation of the Federal Pathway to Address Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People, the federal government’s contribution to the 2021 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People National Action Plan: Ending Violence Against Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action and the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girl’s Calls for Justice in Partnership with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples.
• Implement a new initiative to bolster the capacity of Indigenous women’s and 2SLGBTQQIA+ organizations to provide GBV prevention programming. This initiative was announced in Budget 2021 and is a key deliverable of the Federal Pathway.

In 2022-23, DND will continue to reinforce education and awareness, while ensuring that Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members and their families are supported by services received through Family Violence Advisory Team programming and the Community Support for Sexual Misconduct Survivors grant program^{Footnote 1}. DND will:

• ensure that each Base/Wing across Canada has an active team with standardized policies and procedures in place to support their work;
• continue the expansion of the revamped Healthy Relationships Campaign and a suite of new educational materials for CAF leadership, members and families to increase the understanding of the spectrum of violence and the support services that are available in their local communities;
• promote a coordinated approach across DND and the CAF to ensure that all necessary stakeholders are engaged with Canada’s Strategy to Prevent and Address Gender-Based Violence; and
• increase accessibility to support services for those impacted by CAF sexual misconduct, through the provision of financial support to community-based service providers, including sexual assault centres, across Canada.

In 2022-23, PHAC will continue to support 33 multi-year projects to prevent gender-based violence and its impacts, using health promotion approaches. These diverse projects include programs to teach youth healthy relationships and build the skills of parents and caregivers to support positive parenting and alternatives to harsh discipline. PHAC is also planning to support up to 30 new projects to prevent family violence, including intimate partner violence, child maltreatment, and elder abuse. These projects will contribute to addressing evidence gaps and supporting priority populations such as Indigenous and LGBTQ2+ communities. Continuing and new projects also include initiatives to equip health and other professionals to recognize, prevent, and respond safely to gender-based violence. To connect projects and build capacity among researchers and service providers working in the field, PHAC will continue to support two communities of practice (focused on teen dating violence and family violence). In response to ongoing restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic , PHAC will continue supporting projects in learning about alternative program delivery mechanisms, transitioning to online delivery models, and enhancing projects’ research elements.

In 2022-23, PS will continue to support the Canadian Centre for Child Protection’s Project Arachnid, a web-crawler that detects child-sexual abuse material and sends take-down notices to service providers. PS will also support additional awareness activities aimed at groups vulnerable to online sexual exploitation. In addition, PS will undertake research, awareness and intervention activities aimed at preventing and addressing bullying and cyberbullying behaviours. In 2022-23, these activities will include:

• supporting the implementation and evaluation of community-based bullying/cyberbullying intervention projects through the National Crime Prevention Strategy;
• the preparation of research reports to provide a better understanding of  existing cyberbullying information to inform future research; and
• a pilot launch of a school roadshow for students in grade 7/8 on  the harms and consequences of cyberbullying and the risk of online child sexual exploitation.

In 2022-23, the RCMP will continue to offer the mandatory cultural awareness and humility training to all employees, as well as the trauma-informed training that is currently available and mandatory for all employees who interact with the public. These training courses will provide employees with knowledge and skills that will improve capacity across the RCMP to effectively respond to GBV in a gender and culturally sensitive manner, including in response to GBV against Indigenous women and girls. The RCMP’s Sexual Assault Review Team (SART) has reviewed over 30,000 sexual assault case files and continues to review unfounded sexual assault investigations. The RCMP continues to use what has been learned from this process to strengthen police training and awareness, investigative accountability, victim support, public education and communication. The RCMP will also continue to enhance its capacity to combat online sexual exploitation of children and transnational child sex offenders.

In 2022-23, IRCC will continue to support the development of a coordinated, settlement sector-wide approach to GBV to increase the capacity of front-line settlement workers, as well as enhance place-based services for newcomers and refugees. With collaboration between the settlement and anti-violence sectors, this strategy will support the development of consistent GBV policy and protocol resources, as well as training that is culturally competent and trauma-informed. This training will improve the capacity of settlement workers to effectively respond to GBV, as well as adopt a preventative response that strengthens the capacity of newcomers and refugees, including men and boys, to engage on the issue. The GBV Partnership will also advance best practices that address emerging GBV issues for these sectors, along with effective resources for stakeholders to support a strong and strategic cross-sectoral approach.

In 2022-23, JUS expects to support funding agreements across 12 jurisdictions for multi-year funding to provide independent legal advice and legal representation (ILA/ILR) to victims and survivors of sexual assault and IPV. ILA/ILR will be delivered by provincial and territorial governments (PTs), as well as legal clinics and non-governmental organisations. In addition, JUS expects to support funding agreements with five provinces and will continue to engage with other PTs and stakeholders to improve support and access to justice for victims of intimate partner violence who are involved in the family justice system and broaden the geographic representation of this investment. Also, it is expected that supervision services for parenting time will be enhanced or made available in seven jurisdictions, with ongoing discussion with other PTs to ensure this investment is accessible to as many regions as possible.