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International Development Research Centre

Program code
BKX00 (IDRC)
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2018-19 – 2024-25

What it does

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) helps developing countries find solutions to problems crucial to their citizens and communities. To fulfill our mandate, IDRC invests in knowledge, innovation, and solutions, accelerating development research on its way to big impact. We do this by enabling leaders in government, research, and business in the developing world—strengthening societies and building important relationships for Canada.

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).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-25International Development Research Centre 2018-19: $140MInternational Development Research Centre 2019-20: $143MInternational Development Research Centre 2020-21: $146MInternational Development Research Centre 2021-22: $155MInternational Development Research Centre 2022-23: $159MInternational Development Research Centre 2023-24: $165MInternational Development Research Centre 2024-25: $160MInternational Development Research Centre
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
International Development Research CentreThis program2018-19 – 2024-25$1.07B

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.

No significant changes detected.

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2018-19: $140M2018-192019-20: $143M2019-202020-21: $146M2020-212021-22: $155M2021-222022-23: $159M2022-232023-24: $165M2023-242024-25: $160M2024-25
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19—$140M
2019-20—$143M
2020-21—$146M
2021-22—$155M
2022-23—$159M
2023-24—$165M
2024-25—$160M

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

Plan
Actual

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