Program directory · Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada

Research and Knowledge Initiative

Department: Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada
Program code: BTK13 (OICC)
Core responsibility: Public Infrastructure
In Departmental Plans: 2019-20 – 2020-21 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

The Research and Knowledge Initiative is a new contributions program that will support data and research projects by stakeholders that generate knowledge and enable evidence-based decision-making in infrastructure and community building.

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).

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.

Program	Relation	Years with data	Actual spending over those years
Research and Knowledge Initiative	This program	2019-20 – 2022-23	$2.6M

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

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 data, research or collaboration products (e.g., reports, studies, event proceedings, best practices and innovations) that have been completed and made available to the public that disseminate information about research outcomes as a result of the program

Expected result: Strengthened evidence base for infrastructure issues

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2020-21	—	—	— Launch of program postponed due to COVID-19.	No result reported

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

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 year	Planned	Actual
2019-20	$2M	$1.3M
2020-21	$3.1M	$1.3M
2021-22	$2.6M*	—
2022-23	$2.1M*	—

Employees (FTEs)

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 year	Planned	Actual
2019-20	0	0
2020-21	3	0
2021-22	3*	—
2022-23	3*	—

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
2019-20 plan	$2,007,237	$2,306,462	$2,303,166
2020-21 plan		$3,086,562	$2,632,529	$2,085,317
Actual	$1,299,827	$1,299,989

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