Question Period Note: Departmental Results Report

What did Women and Gender Equality Canada accomplish in the 2022-23 year to advance gender equality?

•The Government of Canada is committed to advancing gender equality.
•Women and Gender Equality Canada’s 2022-23 Departmental Results Report highlights accomplishments related to advancing gender equality in the past year.
•In 2022–23, the Department:
o Endorsed a historical 10-year National Action Plan to end Gender-Based Violence, in collaboration with provinces and territories to work towards a Canada free of gender-based violence.
o Launched the 2SLGBTQI+ Action Plan to advance rights and equality for 2SLGBTQI+ communities and build a safer, more inclusive Canada. The Action Plan is supported by a Budget 2022 investment of $100 million over five years, of which up to $75 million is for direct community supports.
o Invested more than $35 million in the 2SLGBTQI+ Capacity Fund through a call for proposals and an extension to funding, to help build the capacity of 2SLGBTQI+ community organizations and networks to advance equality across Canada.
o Supported 237 projects through the Feminist Response and Recovery Fund (which supports response and recovery related to the impacts of COVID-19) that addressed systemic barriers for marginalized or underrepresented women including Indigenous, racialized, newcomers, members of official language minority communities and 2SLGBTQI+ communities, and women who are low-income, living with a disability and in a rural, remote or northern community.
o Continued to strengthen its role in providing leadership and support on the application of GBA Plus in decision-making.

•The 2022–23 Departmental Results Report was tabled in Parliament and published on our departmental website on November 9, 2023.
•Key highlights in 2022-23 include:
o Investing nearly $14 million in 42 projects to support organizations in developing and implementing prevention or intervention practices that support at-risk populations and survivors of human trafficking. Examples of key projects include development and implementation of promising practices that focus on trauma-informed prevention training; peer support interventions models; and education programs. Many key populations are served by this funded work, including Indigenous people and youth.
o Endorsing a historical 10-year National Action Plan to end Gender Based Violence and establishing bilateral agreements with the provinces and territories to deliver funds and implement the National Action Plan in their jurisdictions.
o Collaborating with national Indigenous leaders and representatives, including the Indigenous Women’s Circle, to address key priorities, such as missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, program funding, and the effects of the pandemic on Indigenous communities. This collaboration helped shape the government’s $55 million investment to bolster the capacity of organizations to address gender-based violence.
o Developing structures to support departments and agencies and ensure they remain accountable for their GBA Plus obligations. This includes a GBA Plus Champions Network, an Interdepartmental Committee of GBA Plus Focal Points, and Federal-Provincial-Territorial GBA Plus sub-group of the Strategic Planning Task Teams.
o Supporting Canada's participation in the 67th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 67), which focused on achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age. In September 2022, Canada submitted the Tenth Report to the UN Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

BACKGROUND:
•The Departmental Results Report is an annual requirement to communicate departmental results achieved in relation to organizational priorities and departmental expenditures, and resources that were set out in the Departmental Plan at the beginning of the fiscal year, to Parliament and to Canadians.
•Over the reporting period, the Department has contributed to advancing gender equality by focusing on four priority areas: 1) preventing and addressing gender-based violence; 2) strategic action and engagement to address systemic barriers to gender equality; 3) ensuring robust Gender-Based Analysis Plus throughout federal government decision-making processes; and 4) supporting community action to advance gender equality.

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