Program directory · Employment and Social Development Canada
Sustainable Development Goals Funding Program
- Department
- Employment and Social Development Canada
- Program code
- BGM08 (HRSD)
- Core responsibility
- Social Development
- In Departmental Plans
- 2019-20 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Funding Program supports Canada’s implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for sustainable development. The program increases public awareness of the SDGs, supports new partnerships to advance action, and implements innovative initiatives to drive domestic progress. The government provides grants and contributions to support the work of stakeholders, including not-for-profit organizations, provinces and territories, municipalities, academia, the private sector, Indigenous peoples, women, youth and vulnerable and/or marginalized populations and uses this work to advance the implementation of Agenda 2030 and its 17 SDGs.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sustainable Development Goals Funding Program | This program | 2018-19 – 2028-29 | $38.1M |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | Spending $6.4M, against $478K in 2018-19 (+1244%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2020-21 | Indicators added: Number of individuals engaged in Funding Program activities (including but not limited to: in-person attendance to events, fora, conferences, webinars and roundtables). | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2020-21 | Indicators dropped: Percent of annual funding envelope ($4.6M) disbursed | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2021-22 | Indicators added: Number of supported projects that identify and address knowledge/data gaps or ways to support innovation to advance Canada’s implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2021-22 | Indicators dropped: Number of individuals engaged in Funding Program activities (including but not limited to: in-person attendance to events, fora, conferences, webinars and roundtables). | Departmental Results Framework (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | ≥ 12 | 2024 | 14 In fiscal year 2023-2024, 14 projects received funding for a total of $3.8M. In 2023-24, a new Call For Proposals (CFP) was launched for the SDG Funding Program. Funding agreements for this CFP are expected to be in place in Fall 2024. | Met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 15 | 2024 | 30 The SDG Funding Program was able to support more projects than expected by capping grants at $200,000. | Met |
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | At least 5,000 | 2021 | 13,578 The target set for the 2020-2021 fiscal year was based on an initial assessment of the anticipated number of beneficiaries in project proposals. The review of the final project reports provided ESDC with more complete information on the results achieved. Due to the pandemic, several organisations hosted virtual events instead of in-person events as originally planned. In some cases, this resulted… | Met |
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | Target not specified. | 2020 | 100% Approximately 100% of the $4.6M funding envelope ($4,585,264; 99.68%) was disbursed. In 2019-20, the SDG Funding Program launched a continuous intake process for grants and a call for proposals for contributions. Both processes were highly successful, allowing for almost full disbursement of its funding envelope. | No result reported |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 30 | 2027 | — | Planned |
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | — | $478K |
| 2019-20 | $7.3M | $6.4M |
| 2020-21 | $7.3M | $6.5M |
| 2021-22 | $7.4M | $5.6M |
| 2022-23 | $7.4M | $5.2M |
| 2023-24 | $7.4M | $5.6M |
| 2024-25 | $7.5M | $8.3M |
| 2025-26 | $7.6M | — |
| 2026-27 | $7.6M | — |
| 2027-28 | $7.6M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $7.6M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | — | 4 |
| 2019-20 | 19 | 17 |
| 2020-21 | 19 | 17 |
| 2021-22 | 19 | 16 |
| 2022-23 | 19 | 11 |
| 2023-24 | 19 | 13 |
| 2024-25 | 18 | 31 |
| 2025-26 | 18 | — |
| 2026-27 | 18 | — |
| 2027-28 | 18* | — |
| 2028-29 | 18* | — |
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 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 plan | $7,287,688 | $7,287,688 | $7,287,688 | |||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $7,274,036 | $7,274,036 | $7,274,036 | |||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $7,374,294 | $7,376,980 | $7,376,980 | |||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $7,382,207 | $7,382,207 | $7,382,207 | |||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $7,403,524 | $7,403,524 | $7,403,524 | |||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $7,525,202 | $7,553,002 | $7,557,469 | |||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $7,568,999 | $7,573,525 | $7,573,525 | |||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $7,560,077 | $7,558,910 | $7,557,129 | |||||||
| Actual | $6,417,566 | $6,468,587 | $5,608,464 | $5,228,786 | $5,600,971 | $8,308,508 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
