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Program directory · Women and Gender Equality Canada

Gender-Based Analysis Plus

Program code
BXR06 (SWC)
Core responsibility
Advancing Gender Equality
In Departmental Plans
2026-27 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

Through its Gender-based Analysis Plus Program, the Department for Women and Gender Equality provides whole-of-government leadership and support through the Department’s GBA Plus Centre of Expertise. WAGE delivers through its three key roles: (1) Knowledge Broker: to develop and transmit knowledge and policy expertise to support early integration of intersectional GBA Plus throughout government systems, policies, and processes; (2) Convener: to bring together federal, domestic and international stakeholders from different sectors, leverage resources, make connections to support a holistic, coordinated approach to implementation; and (3) Capacity Builder: to equip networks of internal and external partners to identify and address inequities in their contexts and to contribute to collective efforts to improve access to government programs, services and initiatives and to help ensure that diverse populations benefit equitably from government initiatives. The Program also contributes to delivering on whole-of-government commitments to advance equity and inclusion and to address the systemic barriers experienced disproportionately by certain groups including women and other equity-deserving populations.

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

History and lineage

First appears in the Departmental Plans in 2026-27. 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).

2026-272027-282028-29Gender-Based Analysis Plus 2026-27: $2.1MGender-Based Analysis Plus 2027-28: $1.8MGender-Based Analysis Plus 2028-29: $1.8MGender-Based Analysis Plus
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
Gender-Based Analysis PlusThis program2026-27 – 2028-29—

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

No results reported yet.

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

Percentage of organizations that integrate GBA Plus “almost always/always” in the “Problem Definition” stage of the policy/program development activities/process
Expected result: Federal departments and agencies integrate GBA Plus as part of evidence-based decision-making
30%2026-27

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report yearTargetDueResultStatus
2026-27≥ 30%2027—Planned

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2026-27: $2.1M2026-272027-28: $1.8M2027-282028-29: $1.8M2028-29
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
2026-27$2.1M—
2027-28$1.8M*—
2028-29$1.8M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2026-27: 82026-272027-28: 72027-282028-29: 72028-29
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
2026-278—
2027-287*—
2028-297*—

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

Plan2026-272027-282028-29
2026-27 plan$2,078,431$1,809,699$1,795,834
Actual

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