Program directory · Women and Gender Equality Canada
Community Action and Innovation
- Department
- Women and Gender Equality Canada
- Program code
- BXR02 (SWC)
- Core responsibility
- Advancing Gender Equality
- In Departmental Plans
- 2019-20 – 2025-26 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
Through its Community Action and Innovation program, the Department for Women and Gender Equality provides grants and contributions to organizations to implement projects that are designed to strengthen the sector working to advance gender equality and bring some degree of systemic change in the underlying factors that perpetuate inequality at a local and regional level.
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).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Action and Innovation | Earlier program (name match, high confidence) | 2018-19 – 2020-21 | $36.9M |
| Community Action and Innovation | This program | 2019-20 – 2027-28 | $1.31B |
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.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | Appears to replace Community Action and Innovation | Canada Spends name match across plans (an inference) |
| 2020-21 | Spending $179M, against $76.8M in 2019-20 (+133%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2022-23 | Employees (FTEs) 181, against 115 in 2021-22 (+57%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2022-23 | Spending $278M, against $190M in 2021-22 (+46%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2026-27 | Planned employees (FTEs) 102, against 151 in 2025-26 (−32%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2026-27 | Planned spending $250M, against $362M in 2025-26 (−31%). | Latest Departmental Plan |
| 2027-28 | Planned employees (FTEs) 71, against 102 in 2026-27 (−30%). | FTEs (GC InfoBase) |
| 2027-28 | Planned spending $47M, against $250M in 2026-27 (−81%). | Latest Departmental Plan |
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
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | ≥ 85% | 2021 | 50% The methodology employed by WAGE to calculate the results for this indicator was improved in 2021. The revised target will be reflected in the 2022-23 Departmental Plan. | Not met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 85% | 2021 | 0% This indicator is no longer valid. | Not met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 50% | 2023 | 48% This is a volatile indicator. Each year, WAGE receives a small number of project final reports. Therefore, the results can be less consistent over the reporting periods than other indicators where the sample sizes are larger. | Not met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 50% | 2024 | 58% | Met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 50% | 2025 | 58.7% | 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
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | $65.1M | $76.8M |
| 2020-21 | $92.5M | $179M |
| 2021-22 | $91.5M | $190M |
| 2022-23 | $269M | $278M |
| 2023-24 | $248M | $267M |
| 2024-25 | $327M | $321M |
| 2025-26 | $362M | — |
| 2026-27 | $250M* | — |
| 2027-28 | $47M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | 107 | 98 |
| 2020-21 | 134 | 99 |
| 2021-22 | 102 | 115 |
| 2022-23 | 174 | 181 |
| 2023-24 | 167 | 171 |
| 2024-25 | 172 | 164 |
| 2025-26 | 151 | — |
| 2026-27 | 102* | — |
| 2027-28 | 71* | — |
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 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 plan | $65,053,983 | $72,553,905 | $62,170,809 | ||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $92,490,501 | $89,761,898 | $92,823,735 | ||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $91,516,390 | $95,700,580 | $119,378,380 | ||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $269,165,383 | $161,038,288 | $77,286,750 | ||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $248,097,656 | $253,988,880 | $253,822,008 | ||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $327,328,918 | $327,113,840 | $206,220,750 | ||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $362,118,064 | $249,517,607 | $46,971,062 | ||||||
| Actual | $76,815,223 | $179,127,432 | $190,018,922 | $278,174,215 | $266,884,001 | $321,443,894 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
