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Indigenous Governance and Capacity

Program code
BWT01 (INDSC)
Core responsibility
Community and Regional Development
In Departmental Plans
2018-19 – 2018-19 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

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).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-272027-282028-29Indigenous Governance and Capacity 2018-19: $512MIndigenous Governance and Capacity 2019-20: $392MIndigenous Governance and Capacity 2020-21: $392MIndigenous Governance and Capacity 2019-20: $431MIndigenous Governance and Capacity 2020-21: $411MIndigenous Governance and Capacity 2021-22: $415MIndigenous Governance and Capacity 2022-23: $439MIndigenous Governance and Capacity 2023-24: $252MIndigenous Governance and Capacity 2024-25: $251MIndigenous Governance and Capacity Supports 2023-24: $692MIndigenous Governance and Capacity Supports 2024-25: $691MIndigenous Governance and Capacity Supports 2025-26: $672MIndigenous Governance and Capacity Supports 2026-27: $455MIndigenous Governance and Capacity Supports 2027-28: $404MIndigenous Governance and Capacity Supports 2028-29: $404MIndigenous Governance and CapacityIndigenous Governance and CapacityIndigenous Governance and Capacity Supports
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
Indigenous Governance and CapacityThis program2018-19 – 2020-21$512M
Indigenous Governance and CapacityLater program (name match, high confidence)2019-20 – 2024-25$1.7B
Indigenous Governance and Capacity SupportsLater program (name match, high confidence)2023-24 – 2028-29$1.38B

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.

YearWhat changedSource
2019-20Appears to be replaced by Indigenous Governance and CapacityCanada Spends name match across plans (an inference)

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

Number of Indigenous communities with a completed Comprehensive Community Plan
Expected result: Indigenous communities are supported in developing their vision, priorities, and required capacity to improve their social and economic determinants
1472018-19✗ not met

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2018-19≥ 1942019147
On track to meet target by March 2020.
Not 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

2018-19: $414M2018-19: $512M2018-192019-20: $392M2019-202020-21: $392M2020-21
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19$414M$512M
2019-20$392M*—
2020-21$392M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2018-19: 3742018-19: 3792018-192019-20: 3742019-202020-21: 3742020-21
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19374379
2019-20374*—
2020-21374*—

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

Plan2018-192019-202020-21
2018-19 plan$414,042,137$391,848,503$392,020,362
Actual$512,497,217

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