Program directory · Women and Gender Equality Canada
Preventing and Addressing Gender-Based Violence
- Department
- Women and Gender Equality Canada
- Program code
- BXRO4 (SWC)
- Core responsibility
- Advancing Gender Equality
- In Departmental Plans
- 2026-27 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
The objective of the Preventing and Addressing Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Program is to end gender-based violence in Canada through collaborative federal and national actions, support for organizations developing and implementing initiatives to address gender-based violence, building knowledge and disseminating information to raise awareness of gender-based violence and contribute to ending it, leadership and coordination, WAGE programming, and providing the Government of Canada with policy advice and influencing program and policy development to ensure that groups most at risk of gender-based violence or underserved when they experience it can live safely in Canada.
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).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preventing and Addressing Gender-Based Violence | This program | 2026-27 – 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.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2027-28 | Planned spending $59.2M, against $212M in 2026-27 (−72%). | 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
No results reported yet.
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 75% | 2027 | — | Planned |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | $212M | — |
| 2027-28 | $59.2M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $59.1M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | 82 | — |
| 2027-28 | 73* | — |
| 2028-29 | 72* | — |
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 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 plan | $211,896,022 | $59,246,170 | $59,135,247 |
| Actual |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
