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Program directory · Department of Indigenous Services

Self-Determined Services

Program code
BXQ02 (INDSC)
Core responsibility
Indigenous Self-Determined Services
In Departmental Plans
2019-20 – 2021-22 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

The Self-Determined Services Program contributes to the Departmental Result: Indigenous people control the design, delivery and management of services. This Program consists of agreements signed and funding provided by the Department to support services for which the control, authority and/or jurisdiction has been formally transferred to Indigenous communities or organizations. Examples of such agreements and funding include Regional Education Agreements and First Nation school boards. Target beneficiaries of these agreements and funding include Indigenous bands, tribal councils, and Indigenous organizations.

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

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2019-20. 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).

2019-202020-212021-222022-232023-24Self-Determined Services 2019-20: $140MSelf-Determined Services 2020-21: $269MSelf-Determined Services 2021-22: $333MSelf-Determined Services 2022-23: $285MSelf-Determined Services 2023-24: $285MSelf-Determined Services
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
Self-Determined ServicesThis program2019-20 – 2023-24$742M

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.

YearWhat changedSource
2020-21Spending $269M, against $140M in 2019-20 (+91%).Actual spending (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

No results reported yet.

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

2019-20: $285M2019-20: $140M2019-202020-21: $285M2020-21: $269M2020-212021-22: $285M2021-22: $333M2021-222022-23: $285M2022-232023-24: $285M2023-24
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
2019-20$285M$140M
2020-21$285M$269M
2021-22$285M$333M
2022-23$285M*—
2023-24$285M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2019-20: 02019-20: 02019-202020-21: 02020-21: 02020-212021-22: 02021-22: 02021-222022-23: 02022-232023-24: 02023-24
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
2019-2000
2020-2100
2021-2200
2022-230*—
2023-240*—

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.