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Best Practices in Gender Budgeting:
Strong data and analysis
6th Annual Meeting of the OECD Gender Budgeting Network –
Paris, September 2022

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Gender Budgeting in Canada: Core Principles
Gender Results Framework (Budget 2018)
The Gender Results Framework is aligned with the Government of
Canada’s policy of GBA Plus, ensuring that gender is considered in
relation to other intersecting identity factors.
Canadian Gender Budgeting Act (December 2018)
• Introduced in December 2018 to make gender budgeting a permanent
part of the federal budget-making process and to establish reporting
requirements for new budget measures, tax expenditures, and existing
government program expenditures
• Promotes the principle of gender equality and greater inclusiveness in
society as part of the annual federal budget
• Considers gender and diversity in taxation and resource allocation
decisions, including direct spending and transfers to persons and other
levels of government;
• Makes information available to the public on the impacts of
Government decisions in terms of gender and diversity, in order to
enhance transparency and accountability
Budgets 2017 and 2018 Budget 2019 and beyond
• GBA Plus based on
department-specific
templates
• Aggregate analysis
based on high-level
summaries
• Potential for duplicative
requirements
• Standardized template (Word), read
into Excel –> a script​
• Relational links to financial
databases allows for deeper analysis
on the budget measures, and
reduces duplication
• Data-driven approach allows for in-
depth GBA Plus for all budget
measures and summary statistics

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Comprehensive analysis for all budget measures
Impacts Report
• Canada’s Gender Budgeting Act requires that the
Minister of Finance table a report on the impacts in
terms of gender and diversity of all new budget
measures described in the annual federal budget.
• Budget 2022’s Statement and Impacts Report on
Gender, Diversity, and Quality of Life is organized by
Gender Results Framework ‘pillar’, with a summary of
the gender-based analysis included for each and every
new measure announced in the budget, as shown in the
example on the right:
• In Budget 2021 the Impacts Report (previously Gender
Report) was expanded to include Quality of Life
considerations:
• Both who is most affected and the nature of the
impacts are considered.

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Aggregate Statistics – Gender and Diversity Impacts
Target Population
Share of Budget 2022 investments ($ value of measures*)
All Canadians
38%
Specific
Region/Sector
22%
Other Subgroups
9%
Canadians
Experiencing
Housing
Affordability
Challenges
11%
Indigenous peoples
19%
Individuals with Disabilities
or Health Conditions
1%
* Excluding Tax Fairness and Savings Measures.
Gender Balanced
44%
Men
12%
Defence
Commitments
(Indirectly/directly
benefitting men)
12%
Low Carbon
Economy (Indirectly
benefitting men)
11%
Housing Accelerator
Fund (Indirectly
benefitting men)
7%
Women
5%
Dental Care
(Indirectly
benefitting
women)
9%
Expected Benefits: Gender - Share of Budget 2022 Investments
($ value of measures*)
* Excluding Tax Fairness and Savings Measures.

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Gender Budgeting: Responding to Key Challenges
Budget 2021 – Gender Budgeting in Action
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1.Consistent
approach
2. Keep focus on
gender and
diversity
considerations in
decision making
• Standardized template and clear
guidance with examples
• Women and Gender Equality Canada
support (including training)
• Internal advisory committee to
take stock of progress
• Gender Results Framework informs
priority-setting in relation to policy
gaps
Challenges
Responses
3. Availability of
disaggregated
data
• Increased funding for Statistics Canada
(Budgets 2018 and 2021)
• Gender and Diversity Hub (Budget 2018)
• Major investments to implement a
Disaggregated Data Action Plan, of $172M
over 5 years (Budget 2021)

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Disaggregated Data Action Plan (DDAP)
• The 2021 federal budget provided:
o $172 million over five years, and $36.3 million
ongoing to Statistics Canada to implement a
Disaggregated Data Action Plan (DDAP)​​
• Objectives:
o Supporting more representative data
collection
o Enhancing statistics on diverse populations
o Supporting the government and society’s
efforts to address systemic racism and gender
discrimination
o Bringing fairness and inclusion considerations
into decision-making processes
Source: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-627-m/11-627-m2021092-eng.htm

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DDAP investments
• For 2022-23, the direct DDAP budget totals $27.4 million
and is distributed primarily across six streams of work.
• In total there are 47 projects funded by the DDAP in 2022-
23
Table 1: DDAP Performance Monitoring
Gender
Racialized
populations
Indigenous
Peoples
People
with
disabilities
FY 2020-2021 60.9% 38.5% 45.5% 20.6%
FY 2021-2022 65.2% 49.4% 47.5% 26.4%
Targets by
2025-2026 80.0% 70.0% 70.0% 50.0%
DDAP work in the current fiscal year
• Key DDAP results within its first year include:
o The agency continued to improve and expand data collection
allowing for greater opportunities for disaggregation across its
statistical programs on health, society, the economy and the
environment.
o These activities include the Labour Force Survey, the Canadian
Community Health Survey, the General Social Survey and the
Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
o These surveys are heavily used in reporting on the indicators
throughout the Gender Results Framework.
• Table 1 shows the percentage of statistical indicators
produced regularly by the Socio-Economic Program that is
disaggregated across various identity factors

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Looking ahead
• Expanding data holdings in new areas
o Statistics Canada will continue to integrate disaggregated data practices across the agency
• Increasing the use of Statistics Canada’s disaggregated data standards across the federal government
o A new interdepartmental committee has been struck to facilitate this
• Strengthening gender budgeting practice through use of disaggregated data
o Finance Canada will encourage departments to leverage disaggregated data in their budget proposals

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