Ensure that Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA+) is incorporated into key government reports.

What success looks like

All major government reports include Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA+) considerations, improving their policy recommendations.

Government's narrative on progress

Budget 2017 included the government’s first-ever Gender Statement, a high-level review of the ways in which policies affect women and men differently. Budget 2018, integrated considerations of gender impacts at each step of the budgeting process, and introduced a new Gender Results Framework (GRF). The GRF includes goals and indicators that guide the government’s decisions and measure Canada’s progress in achieving greater gender equality. In Budget 2018, no budget decision was taken without being informed by Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA+). To help achieve the government's goal of greater equality, all measures and investments in the 2018 Fall Economic Statement were informed by GBA+ and the government's GRF. Budget 2019 moves even further, reflecting concerted efforts to incorporate GBA+ in the policy development process and provide a comprehensive summary of GBA+ by measure in a comprehensive Gender Report. The government has provided guidance to departments and agencies on incorporating GBA+ into their Departmental Results Frameworks and Departmental Plans and, continues to examine how best to extend GBA+ to other key reports. In addition, Budget 2019 proposes to provide $1.5 million over 5 years, starting in 2019–20 to the Treasury Board Secretariat to work with departments receiving Budget 2019 funding to ensure robust administrative data collection and reporting practices with respect to gender-based analysis plus (GBA+) information for all initiatives. The Secretariat will draw on the expertise of Statistics Canada and the Department for Women and Gender Equality in developing standardized frameworks and tools for GBA+ disaggregated data collection and reporting. This will achieve greater consistency and comparability over time and across programs in the aim of improving the inclusiveness of Government of Canada programs.

Note: this is the government's own description, not an independent assessment.