Program directory · Employment and Social Development Canada

Community Workforce Development Program / Canada Retraining and Opportunities Initiative

Department

Employment and Social Development Canada

Program code

BGO27 (HRSD)

Core responsibility

Learning, Skills Development and Employment

In Departmental Plans

2022-23 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

The Community Workforce Development Program supports communities with developing community workforce plans, and connecting employers and training providers to help workers develop skills to transition to new jobs. The program includes the Canada Retraining and Opportunities Initiative, which supports communities and workers significantly impacted by a mass layoff.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2021-22. 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).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

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.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

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

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.