Program directory · Global Affairs Canada
Geographic Coordination and Mission Support
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Program code
- BVB10 (EA)
- Core responsibility
- International Advocacy and Diplomacy
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2024-25 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
The Geo Coordination and Mission Support (NMD) bureau champions and coordinates missions and geographic branches, to advance Government of Canada priorities, providing them with innovative solutions, enabling effective collaboration and results. NMD coordinates the flow of information, and a variety of planning and reporting processes, between geographic branches, and on consular, international assistance, interdepartmental relations, data quality, Blueprint 2020, IRCC/CBSA and other whole-of-department priorities. NMD enables Public Diplomacy by supporting, coordinating and reporting Advocacy and Digital Engagement campaigns, the Post Initiative Fund (PIF) and the Mission Cultural Fund (MCF). NMD enables traditional diplomatic Planning and Reporting through Strategia. In both public and traditional diplomacy details are captured based on departmental priorities, and data is organized to reflect a theory of change. In addition, knowledge from across the department, and from mission staff in particular, is reported and shared through My International.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geographic Coordination and Mission Support | This program | 2018-19 – 2026-27 | $52.2M |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | Employees (FTEs) 66, against 32 in 2023-24 (+106%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2025-26 | Planned employees (FTEs) 36, against 66 in 2024-25 (−45%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | — | 2020 | 80% As of 2019-20, the methodology of this indicator was revised to include data from a new IM/IT platform and campaign-specific key performance indicators. Of five events, one campaign, Gender Pledge, did not meet its stated objective because of a decrease in the number of Head of Missions and Missions sharing Gender Pledges on social media as compared to last year, as well as a lack of reporting of… | No result reported |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 75% | 2021 | 75% | Met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 75% | 2022 | 80% | Met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 75% | 2023 | 80% | Met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 75% | 2024 | 100% | Met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 75% | 2025 | 100% | Met |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | — | 2020 | 70% The methodological note for this indicator was updated to encourage strict guidance to define which initiatives met their stated objectives. Had the same methodology been applied for 2018-19 the results would have been 73%. Baseline information was not available when the targets were established in the 2019-20 Departmental Plan. Targets have since been established for these indicators. | No result reported |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 75% | 2021 | 79% | Met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 75% | 2022 | 81% | Met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 72% | 2023 | 81% | Met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 72% | 2024 | 81% | Met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 72% | 2025 | 83% | Met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $5.2M | $6M |
| 2019-20 | $4M | $9.7M |
| 2020-21 | $8.5M | $6.4M |
| 2021-22 | $8.5M | $7.3M |
| 2022-23 | $8.4M | $9.1M |
| 2023-24 | $5.3M | $7.2M |
| 2024-25 | $5.6M | $6.5M |
| 2025-26 | $5.6M* | — |
| 2026-27 | $5.6M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 29 | 38 |
| 2019-20 | 27 | 32 |
| 2020-21 | 29 | 28 |
| 2021-22 | 38 | 41 |
| 2022-23 | 43 | 41 |
| 2023-24 | 33 | 32 |
| 2024-25 | 36 | 66 |
| 2025-26 | 36* | — |
| 2026-27 | 36* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $5,150,201 | $5,119,592 | $5,119,441 | ||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $3,990,524 | $3,991,643 | $3,976,765 | ||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $8,501,683 | $8,510,824 | $8,646,739 | ||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $8,484,229 | $8,670,887 | $5,125,134 | ||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $8,425,046 | $5,259,647 | $5,261,288 | ||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $5,297,442 | $5,297,052 | $5,301,831 | ||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $5,563,640 | $5,610,010 | $5,618,934 | ||||||
| Actual | $6,046,641 | $9,674,596 | $6,351,454 | $7,342,977 | $9,102,142 | $7,176,515 | $6,547,994 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.