Management Response and Action Plan to Mid-Term Evaluation Report

Evaluation:

Mid-Term Evaluation Report – Federal GBV Strategy

Period Covered:

2017-2018 to 2020-2021

Date of Publication:

Q1 2023-24

Program Summary:

It’s Time: Canada’s Strategy to Prevent and Address Gender-Based Violence (the federal GBV Strategy) is the Government of Canada’s response to Gender-Based Violence (GBV). The federal GBV Strategy was created in 2017-2018 and expanded in 2018-2019 with funding from Budget 2018. Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE), as the designated lead department, ensures the overall coordination reporting and evaluation of the Strategy. While the federal GBV Strategy is a whole-of-government strategy involving more than 20 federal departments and agencies, seven are funded: Department of National Defence; Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada; Public Health Agency of Canada; Public Safety Canada; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; and, WAGE. Justice Canada also became a funded partner of the federal GBV Strategy in 2021-22. While Justice Canada wasn’t included in the mid-term evaluation report, it will be included in the final evaluation report and involved in this management response and action plan. The objectives of the federal GBV Strategy are to: fill gaps in and connect users to knowledge through a Knowledge Centre on GBV; provide supports to populations at risk of GBV or underserved when they experience it; and, build on and coordinate current federal efforts. The federal GBV Strategy’s activities are organized across three Pillars and the GBV Knowledge Centre: (1) Preventing GBV; (2) Supporting Survivors and their Families; and, (3) Supporting Responsive Legal and Justice Systems. The GBV Knowledge Centre is the focal point of the federal GBV Strategy, and an overarching activity led by WAGE.

Mid-Term Evaluation Report – Federal GBV Strategy

Area
The target area (delivery, governance, etc.)

Recommendation
The recommendation, from the evaluation report.

Management Response
Response (agree, partially agree, disagree), with explanation and/or commitments.

Planned Action
SMART Action(s) to be taken to address the recommendation.

Completion Date
Planned completion date (MM-YYYY).

Accountability/ Responsibility
Senior manager responsible for implementing the action (i.e. ADM).

Design, governance

Recommendation 1: Develop a coordinated federal vision for preventing and addressing GBV through the creation and strengthening of governance structures.

Agree

WAGE’s Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Branch will improve current coordination and governance structures as required. This work will ensure close alignment and coordination within WAGE and with other federal organizations, including all federal partners, while assessing the inclusion of new partners to address emerging GBV issues.

Review governance structures and update the Terms of Reference for the WAGE-led interdepartmental committees that support the implementation of the federal GBV Strategy. Terms of Reference will seek to strengthen the governance mechanisms and ensure close coordination of the Federal GBV Strategy.

Summer 2023

Crystal Garrett-Baird

Director General, Gender-Based Violence Branch Women and Gender Equality Canada

Continue to hold regular discussions with all federal partners to ensure close coordination of actions under the Federal GBV Strategy; accurate reporting; and, the formulation of strategic recommendations regarding the implementation of the Strategy going forward.

Ongoing as part of the interdepartmental governance structure

Develop annual work priorities with federal partners through the intergovernmental committees (approval at the DG Steering Committee) to identify areas for collaboration, best practices and emerging trends, while promoting initiatives under the Federal GBV Strategy.

Spring 2023

Improve monitoring, impact assessment, and linkages between initiatives under the federal GBV Strategy.

To be started in Winter 2023 – work will be ongoing

Have continued meaningful engagement with stakeholders to inform the federal GBV Strategy and implementation of the National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence. 

Ongoing

Design

Recommendation 2:

Review and improve the existing logic model and performance measurement framework.

Agree

WAGE will work with federal partners to improve the existing performance measurement system to better articulate the federal GBV Strategy’s expected results and how progress toward those results will be measured over time.

Develop a theory of change that reflects the objectives of the Federal Strategy and is aligned with the pillars of the GBV National Action Plan.

Completed

Piyanjali Tissaaratchy Guillemette

Director, Results-Based Management; Head of Performance Measurement

Women and Gender Equality Canada

Revise the existing performance measurement framework, including the logic model, indicators, and targets, to inform decision-making and facilitate public reporting on progress achieved.

Winter 2023

Design and launch tools to improve data collection and facilitate monitoring/reporting of progress toward expected results.

Spring 2023

Design, delivery

Recommendation 3:

Better define the scope and role of the GBV Knowledge Centre with a view to maximize its efficiency and the extent to which it can amplify the work undertaken through the federal GBV Strategy.

Agree

The GBV Branch will work in collaboration with relevant WAGE Branches and key federal partners to foster an improved GBV knowledge and awareness environment in support of the Federal GBV Strategy and National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence. 

In collaboration with Programs Branch, Communications Branch, and Research and Innovation Directorate, develop a Gender-Based Violence strategic plan for the Knowledge Centre that includes broader horizontal linkages and considerations. 

Strategic Plan for the Knowledge Centre will be completed in Fall 2023 with implementation starting immediately thereafter. 

Crystal Garrett-Baird

Director General, Gender-Based Violence Branch

Women and Gender Equality Canada

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