Gender-based analysis plus

Section 1: Institutional GBA Plus Capacity

Governance: NRCan is committed to facilitating diverse and inclusive outcomes for all Canadians through its work, including ensuring that diverse populations of Canadians benefit from our policies, programs, and initiatives. GBA Plus is essential in achieving this goal. In 2021, NRCan established the GBA Plus Centre of Expertise (The “Centre”), and a GBA Plus Action Plan was created and endorsed by senior management. In 2022-23, the Centre continued to implement its Action Plan aimed at driving change in culture; building internal capacity; strengthening governance and reporting; collaborating and co-creating with partners; and applying results analytics to GBA Plus.

To drive change, the Centre provides ongoing guidance with the aim of increasing understanding of GBA Plus and building capacity to meet government requirements and beyond. It facilitates the integration of GBA Plus across the department, specifically in the development of policies, programs, and initiatives. In 2022-23, the team provided high quality strategic advice to all NRCan Memoranda to Cabinet, Treasury Board Submissions, and Budget Proposals, which included 27 early-stage policies, programs, and initiatives. The Centre performed a challenge function and provided recommendations to sectors on how to enhance their GBA Plus data collection plans and how to measure the impacts of their programs, policies, and initiatives on diverse groups of Canadians.

In addition, the Centre works closely with the Office of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Accessibility (O-IDEA) who ensure that the goals of IDEA are enshrined in everything we do at NRCan. GBA Plus offers analytical tools to support the IDEA vision for all Canadians.

Capacity: To build capacity and awareness, the Centre created a “GBA Plus 101” training session. This introductory course provides an overview of GBA Plus as an analytical process to support decision-making in the development of responsive and inclusive policies, programs, and initiatives, and to build capacity around understanding the GBA Plus process, its application, and what a good analysis should look like. The training officially launched in April 2023 and a total of 106 NRCan employees have attended since the first pilot. In the process of course exercises, the Centre has identified current barriers to responding to the GBA Plus annexes and this will help create new steps for the Action Plan.

In July 2022, the Centre established a GBA Plus Community of Practice; a forum to help build the department’s capacity in GBA Plus and to share information and lessons learned. The Community of Practice continues to grow and includes membership of approximately 200 NRCan employees from across different sectors, occupational groups, and employee networks. The Community has been used to receive feedback on the Centre’s capacity building roadmap, which included an overview of the GBA Plus 101 training in its early stages. The Centre also hosted informative presentations for the Community of Practice by teams such as the Stakeholder Engagement Unit, the Centre of Regulatory Expertise, and the Centre for Gender, Diversity, and Inclusion Statistics from Statistics Canada.

The Centre also leveraged departmental GBA Plus connections in the continued development of two large-scale events to be hosted during GBA Plus Awareness Week in May 2023 on the topic of intersectionality between gender equity, diversity, and climate change. The events were attended by over 400 NRCan employees.

Through internal consultations, the Centre has made advancements in developing results analytics capacity for GBA Plus data collection. After establishing a baseline of the current state of GBA Plus data collection, the Centre consulted with sectors to prepare the tool on NRCan’s best practices, which is now available on NRCan’s intranet site to facilitate the collection of disaggregated data. The Centre has also developed a GBA Plus resource bank which consists of relevant academic publications, survey results, and more. These documents highlight research related to GBA Plus in the natural resource sector and are available to guide and assist sectors with finding information sources and mitigating data gaps.

Section 2: Gender and Diversity Impacts, by Program

Core Responsibility: Natural Resource Science and Risk Mitigation

Canadian Geodetic Survey: Spatially Enabling Canada

Program Goals:

The program goal is to establish and provide the fundamental reference values used as standards for the measurement of latitude, longitude, elevation, and gravity anywhere in Canada and to monitor motions of our continental landmass in support of geomatics and geoscience.

This program supports the introduction of digital services in underserved parts of the country and aims to level the playing field for Canadians in remote communities. It achieves this by planning future investments related to the Canadian Spatial Reference System. Additionally, the program supports increasingly automated transportation services, which have the potential to assist mobility-challenged Canadians.

Target Population: All Canadians

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Second group: 60 per cent - 79 per cent men
By income level	Second group: Somewhat benefits low-income individuals (Somewhat progressive)
By age group	Second group: No significant inter-generational impacts or impacts generation between youth and seniors

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes: All Canadians

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

Geodesy has a broad range of impacts for equity seeking groups. First is the increased access to high-paying jobs in a field that has a growing range of applications. This can lead to greater economic opportunities and upward mobility for individuals and communities that have historically been excluded from such opportunities. Geodesy also has important environmental applications, such as monitoring weather, climate change, and natural hazards, helping to protect vulnerable communities including in remote areas. In addition, it supports improved weather forecasting and increasingly automated transportation services, which have the potential to help mobility-challenged Canadians.

The program is currently improving digital services in underserved parts of the country through the Space-Based Earth Observation (SBEO) Project. This project began in 2020 and aims to add 22 or more real-time Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) stations, more than doubling the coverage of the program’s existing real-time network. Two new stations were added in 2022-2023 in Calvert Island BC and Channel Port-aux-Basques NL; eight more are planned for rural, remote, and Northern locations in 2023-2024.

The program benefits a broad subset of Canadians by improving the accessibility, availability, and usability of geodetic products and services. At this time, the primary beneficiaries of resulting business and employment opportunities are largely from the surveying and engineering communities, technical fields with known equity imbalances. As a leader in the geodetic community in Canada, the program has helped address this through hiring processes: more than half of recent CGS hires have been women and members of other groups facing equity barriers in this domain. The Geodetic Survey offers opportunities for professional development, including mentoring, to reduce barriers for career progression.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

The Program is exploring a GBA Plus Data Collection Plan as the program develops its capacity to meet the needs of underserved Canadians. NRCan is in discussion with ISED and Transport Canada about improved positioning services. A data collection plan will be developed once there is clarity on the outcome of these discussions and the Government of Canada’s investment priorities.

A GBA Plus reassessment is proposed at the conclusion of the SBEO project in 2026, when impacts will be better understood. While the GBA Plus conducted at the close of the project would focus on the awarding and implementation of contracts, future GBA Plus may focus on how SBEO data meet user needs and benefit Canadian society. GBA Plus impacts can only occur once a contract has been awarded and implemented. At this time, the request for service contracts for this program since September 2022.

Canada Lands Survey System

Program Goals: The program provides the framework that identifies, documents, registers, and protects boundaries and property rights for Canada Lands, which in turn provides boundary certainty for Canadians. The program accomplishes this goal through a regulatory framework for legal surveys and by providing professional surveying advice and expertise to other government departments. The program supports Indigenous governance through comprehensive land claims, self-governance agreements, and the Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management, and supports Canada’s objectives for setting aside and protecting unique or sensitive lands for future generations. The program also encourages diverse gender and Indigenous participation in the land surveying and geomatics industry.

Target Population: This survey program supports multiple target populations in various capacities, including all Canadians, Indigenous Peoples, industry, and federal, provincial, and territorial governments.

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	First group: Predominantly men (e.g., 80 per cent or more men)
By income level	Second group: Somewhat benefits low-income individuals (Somewhat progressive)
By age group	Second group: No significant inter-generational impacts or impacts generation between youth and seniors

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes: All Canadians, Indigenous Peoples (a particular demographic group), industry and federal, provincial, and territorial governments (specific regions or sectors of the economy).

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Number of women attending sessions for 2022-2023	28 (47%)	Daily sign-in sheets for participants. This information is made available in the 2022-2023 year end report on the Capacity Building Program.	Not Available
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

The Survey Capacity Development Program began in 2018 to increase awareness and understanding of land surveying, provide mentoring and tools to enable better participation in surveys, and encourage land surveying as a career option by providing in-community training for Indigenous Canadians.

All participants are Indigenous and are selected by the Indigenous community involved. Participation can be fluid with different people attending different sessions. The program tracks participation through a gender/diversity lens by implementing daily sign-in sheets for participants to be able to track gender participation.

Participation by underrepresented demographics has been a focus of the program since inception. In this regard, notable program initiatives moving forward will include a focus on reaching participants who may otherwise not be exposed to land surveying or geomatics as a career option. One principal goal is to encourage diverse gender and Indigenous participation in the land surveying and geomatics industry. The Program is introducing ad-hoc or “just in time” training to provide greater flexibility and attract a greater number of participants.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

The program tracks participation through a gender/diversity lens using daily sign-in sheets for participants to be able to track gender participation in the sessions. A summary of attendance and participation was completed for each engagement session with the First Nation communities involved in the Capacity Building Program. Additionally, the program conducts a client satisfaction survey every 5 years. The incorporation of GBA Plus analysis will be added to the next survey.

Canada-US International Boundary Treaty

Program Goals: This program ensures that the Canada/US International boundary is clearly visible to the citizens and law enforcement agencies of each country. The Canadian section of the IBC is a key player in the NRCan Land Surveyor Development program, helping shape tomorrow’s land surveying professionals. IBC offers unique and diverse work experience to SGB’s articling students by providing them valuable life and field experience all over Canada.

Target Population: All Canadians (i.e., people carrying out activities along the Canada-US international boundary)

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Second group: 60 per cent - 79 per cent men
By income level	Third group: No significant distributional impacts
By age group	Second group: No significant inter-generational impacts or impacts generation between youth and seniors

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes: All Canadians

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

The IBC is a bi-national treaty organization that is responsible for maintaining an effective boundary between Canada and the United States (US) in accordance with the terms of various treaties and, in Canada, in accordance with the International Boundary Commission Act. The Surveyor General in NRCan is Canada’s commissioner. The Commissioners jointly report annually to the Minister of Global Affairs and the US Secretary of State.

The IBC workforce is diverse from an economic and geographic perspective. Hiring processes during the course of 2021 and 2022 were open to all Canadians residing within a 500 km radius of the Ottawa headquarters to fill positions within the Canadian section of the IBC. This partly removed location as a barrier to the hiring process, and as permitted, the diffusion of our work offers a wider range of candidates from various locations and areas. However, this location restriction needs to be enforced for operational reasons. Our last two competitions yielded candidates from cities as well as rural areas. Qualitatively, the Canadian section of the Commission has a diverse team, in terms of nationality, first language, age, socio-economic background, academic training, and ethnic origins. IBC also hires several co-op students for the summer from all over Canada and with diverse backgrounds and origins to provide them training and out of the ordinary work experiences.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

Operations of the IBC include monuments maintenance, field surveys as well as vegetation management of the boundary vista. The cycle for these activities is based on a 15-year maintenance plan, from which the commissioners guide their decisions on the yearly projects. IBC’s operations imply frequent communications with Canadian and American citizens to raise awareness to the mandate as well as provides information on planned operations in various areas of the country. The joint IBC organization maintains a common website in both official languages that define the mandate as well as offer diverse information on the organization. The Commission publicizes employment and contracting opportunities on its website to reach a wide audience and raise awareness. During field operations, IBC meet with various landowners and stakeholders. In turn, due to IBC’s specific mandate and objectives of this program, tracking almost daily interactions with individuals is a challenge and would cause issues during one-on-one conversations.

As for diversity of the workforce, the IBC Canada section team is limited to a few individuals and gathering data on its composition would pose a privacy risk. As a result, data collection will remain a qualitative gathering of information on an ad-hoc basis. For the recruitment of new talent and expertise, the IBC Canada section fully adheres to the departmental Human Resources policies and is striving for greater diversity and GBA Plus prerogatives.

Climate Change Adaptation

Program Goals: Through the Climate Change Adaptation Program (CCAP), NRCan advances climate adaptation by convening Canada’s Climate Change Adaptation Platform, leading the National Assessment Process and publishing associated reports, and delivering G&C programming to support adaptation actions and build adaptation expertise across Canada.

GBA Plus is applied to the work of the CCAP through engagement and participation in convened discussions and events, selection of expert contributors to the National Assessment Process and to Adaptation Working groups, and through the design and delivery of its G&C programs. Climate change impacts are not uniformly experienced, with marginalized communities experiencing disproportionate and more severe effects. Thus, the CCAP design includes efforts to better reflect how social equity, inclusion, and accessibility contribute to solutions that both increase resilience and reduce disparities in vulnerability caused by climate change.

Target Population: All Canadians

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Not Available
By income level	Not Available
By age group	Not Available

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes: All Canadians

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

As the lead of Canada’s Climate Change Adaptation Platform (CCAP), NRCan works closely with partners across the country to advance shared adaptation priorities. The Adaptation Platform enables collaboration from across civil society, including Indigenous organizations, the federal government, provinces and territories, industry, professional associations, municipalities, and academia. Over the past three years, the Adaptation Platform explored the connections between climate change adaptation and social equity, noting the unequal impact that climate change impacts can have on populations across Canada. Adaptation Platform members report that integrating social equity into adaptation planning, implementation, and reporting has so far been limited in Canada; as such, the Adaptation Platform will continue to explore the social equity dimensions of climate change and the role of climate change adaptation in advancing social equity in Canada.

The National Assessment Process is also working to increase engagement with under-represented groups, such as Indigenous peoples, in all stages of the process. It is also bringing attention to GBA Plus issues with respect to climate change adaptation within its publications. For example, the National Issues Report found that climate change impacts those who are already struggling more than others, including communities dealing with inequality due to institutional biases and the legacies of colonialism.

CCAP is also seeking to address equity in several ways through its program design and delivery. The renewed Program includes efforts to better reflect how questions of social equity, inclusion, and accessibility contribute to solutions that both increase resilience and reduce disparities in climate change vulnerability due to systemic inequities. Priority topic areas include recognition of the need for work to advance adaptation for vulnerable and marginalized populations. The program allows for NRCan funding to cover up to 100% of the costs for projects led by Indigenous proponents, and also includes a non-competitive Indigenous-led Projects Stream that reduces barriers for Indigenous applicants.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

Proposals submitted to the CCAP for funding are evaluated in part by the equity, diversity, and inclusion considerations contained in their workplans. The CCAP will be working with funding recipients during the 2023-2027 program cycle to collect information and data in support of monitoring and evaluation of GBA Plus-related project outcomes. This will include collecting data on who is receiving any adaptation skills training supported by the program, and characterizing the audiences and uptake of various other adaptation capacity-building products and outcomes. The program is also tracking how many projects are Indigenous-led and how many include Indigenous partners.

Core Geospatial Data

Program Goals: The delivery of national standards-based core geospatial data, collected and utilized throughout the federal government, supports many objectives such as economic growth, public safety, security, environmental management, and social well-being. From planning through to evaluation we continue to integrate GBA Plus considerations throughout our initiatives, to ensure GBA Plus outcomes are achieved.

Target Population: All Canadians

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Third group: Broadly gender-balanced
By income level	Third group: No significant distributional impacts
By age group	Second group: No significant inter-generational impacts or impacts generation between youth and seniors

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes:

Direct beneficiaries: Indigenous peoples and communities; economically advantaged groups such as researchers, decision-makers, and scientists; rural, remote, and Northern communities

Groups that may face barriers to access/participation: Women and other underrepresented groups in STEM

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

The program inspired girls into STEM and facilitated Indigenous inclusion projects through the following activities:

• Women in diverse leadership roles participated in a career discussion with high school students. This discussion encouraged the students to pursue careers in STEM.
• The publication of an article featuring an Indigenous female employee who actively works on projects featuring Indigenous place names in mapping. This article was shared broadly on social media which increase awareness of this Indigenous female employee.
• Participation in a departmental social media campaign to feature some employees who are women supporting diverse STEM initiatives and building awareness.
• Raising public awareness and building Indigenous capacity for geographical place naming.
• Reviewing and identifying pejorative terminology in official place names, supporting provincial/territorial discussions, and encouraging action to address derogatory place names.
• Building Northern capacity through women to collect and share Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based mapping products.
• Community outreach and capacity building in Inuvik, NWT.
• Co-chairing the Indigenous Technical Working Group on Flood Mapping.
• Strongly encouraging direct engagement with Indigenous communities and provincial/territorial partners and supporting their data sovereignty under the flagship Flood Hazard Identification and Mapping Program.

CCMEO provides a platform to support Indigenous data sovereignty efforts through its initiatives to ensure that Indigenous knowledge and information remains in the possession of its rightful owners to plan land use and manage resources. Training sessions continue to be provided internally and externally and developed to support awareness and understanding of these principles, including the First Nations principles of Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession (OCAP). Additionally, guidance documents and knowledge products have been published and are in development to support Indigenous communities in the governance of their data resources.

A GBA Plus analysis has been completed in support of maintaining/improving existing ground segment antennas and satellite receiving stations, as well as existing digital platforms. Satellite data are critical to acting on and adapting to climate change by enabling applications and services in many areas with existing infrastructure supporting ongoing Government operations, scientific research, and public health and safety regarding the well-being of Canadians.

The improvement of infrastructure that enhances satellite data accessibility, availability, and usability will allow for the continued collection of high-quality data and development of information products. The analysis showed that economically advantaged groups are expected to directly benefit from the improvement of physical facilities, as this demographic tends to include the researchers, decision makers, and those with specialized skill sets who use these tools. This demographic is usually white male dominated.

The program continues to follow NRCan’s employment equity guidelines to address the barriers that contribute to the documented underrepresentation of women and other employment equity groups occupying STEM if and where possible. Additional barriers to the accessibility, availability, and usability of the data produced by this program include factors such as closed data licensing and inefficient data distribution, challenges with obtaining data in near-real time and a lack of cooperative agreements with data providers, and the large processing overhead of the data, difficulty integrating it with other data sets and applications, and a lack of knowledge or experience in applying the data efficiently. As the maintenance of these facilities does not include the modification of existing program design, the unequal access to these data and tools may continue.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

We expect a list of qualitative outcomes / action items arising from the current Arctic Expo and capacity building workshop occurring in Inuvik in 2023.

CCMEO researchers continue to work in collaboration with Indigenous communities on scientific research projects to collect core geospatial (baseline) data related to impacts of mining, permafrost, and vegetation (e.g., lichen) among others. We work in affiliation with Nòkwewashk to ensure meaningful and respectful partnerships with Indigenous communities and include consideration of OCAP principles in data collection and sharing.

Explosives Safety and Security

Program Goals: Natural Resources Canada’s Explosives, Regulatory and Business Services Branch is the national regulator for explosives and their restricted components, as well as the centre of expertise for commercial explosives testing and research. Through its mandate, it contributes to the safety and security of all Canadians.

Target Population: All Canadians

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Not Available
By income level	Not Available
By age group	Not Available

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes: Workers in natural resource sectors tend to be men with middle or higher income, between 18 and 60 years of age, with the men-women split being approximately 72:28. Immigrant employees make up 39.7% of the downstream mineral and mining sector, with Indigenous employment making up 4.8% of natural resource employees. The total percentage of the natural resources workforce that identified as a racialized person was 17.4% in 2019. However, all Canadians are expected to benefit from an updated regime that increases safety and security, by reducing criminal and terrorist access to explosives, reducing accidents and incidents involving explosives, as well as reducing non-compliance surrounding the care and use of explosives.

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

The Explosives Regulatory Division issues licences, permits, and certificates for explosives, ammunition, and pyrotechnics to manufacturers, transporters, importers, exporters, sellers, and users of explosives. The Canadian Explosives Research Laboratory is the only facility of its kind in Canada that conducts science and technology testing and research on commercial explosives and contributes to national security via expertise in blast effects and chemical precursors.

In 2021, NRCan initiated a comprehensive review of its explosives regulatory regime which included significant outreach with sector stakeholders to seek views and input on current challenges with the regime. In the feedback received, stakeholders identified the need for an updated regime with modern approach to oversight. In discussions, stakeholders identified their wish for more robust compliance and enforcement to address individuals and companies who may be operating unsafely or even illegally for economic advantage. They expressed an interest for greater support from the Program’s S&T capability in authorizing new explosives and explosives materials. In light of this, program officials have moved forward with modernization initiatives including comprehensive regulatory amendments. While stakeholders support reduced administrative and regulatory burden and efficient transactions, they also see the economic and reputational advantages to addressing safety and security risks and addressing any unsafe or illegal activities in the explosives industry.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

ERD engaged and consulted regionally with the updating of the Explosive Regulations, 2013. ERD programs will continue to create a formalized framework (Fall 2023) to track engagement and consultations on updated regulations. Additionally, Environmental Assessments (EA) processes work in cooperation with other governmental departments in Canada’s northern territories and are based on a co-management approach rooted in the legal and cultural frameworks of land claims agreements with Indigenous people. ERBSB continues to follow departmental hiring practices for diversity and inclusion and incorporates them when staffing positions.

The explosives sector does not currently collect gender or diversity information for any of their activities. NRCan ERBSB, however, is moving forward with modernization efforts that will enable further collection and reporting of disaggregated administrative data.

Upgraded data systems and forms will allow for opportunities for greater collection of data on the gender and disaggregation data. Data collected would ideally include the number of women and gender diverse individuals, age and education levels, the number of racialized people as well as the number of Indigenous people (separated into First Nation, Inuit and Métis) who work in the explosives industry. Additionally further data on the types of industries that use explosives will be collected in greater detail beyond simply the type of license they apply for (which is currently what type of data is collected and stored). For instance, the ability to state what type of businesses specifically apply for a user magazine license for high impact explosives versus a vendor magazine license would enable better consultation with identified stakeholders in all industries they are present within rather than a focus on larger groups in industries already identified. Ideally data collected would include not just the individuals who apply for certification, but also the larger population who works directly with explosives. This data would be enhanced through collection within the grants and contributions programs and anonymized data gathered from proposed security screenings. With this information, ERBSB would be able to identify better data for the industry as a whole, which is currently lacking.

Forest Climate Change

Program Goals: The Forest Climate Change program informs adaptation planning for forest adaptation and resilience, and provides forest carbon estimates for the National Inventory Report. The Forest Climate Change Program considers GBA Plus principles in its internal project approval and funding allocation process. Research scientists are equally encouraged to apply these principles in carrying out their work. The 2 Billion Trees (2BT) program operationalizes the federal government commitment to plant two billion incremental trees by funding a range of recipients, via non-repayable contributions, to plant trees across Canada. 2BT has used GBA Plus to incorporate diversity and inclusion considerations into program design and implementation, has engaged with NRCan’s Programs Working Group on Diversity, and continues to explore mechanisms to further track and monitor GBA Plus data.

Target Population: The Forest Climate Change Program, including the 2 Billion Trees program, supports multiple target populations in varying capacities within the context of the forest sector, including: all Canadians, Indigenous Peoples, for-profit and non-profit organizations, academia, and federal, provincial, and territorial governments.

Distribution of Benefits

While information on population demographics is not collected at this time, it is expected that end users of the program outputs represent a diverse group of Canadians across the country.

	Group
By gender	Not Available
By income level	Not Available
By age group	Not Available

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes: All Canadians - The research component of the Forest Climate Change program is designed to support environmental stewardship by applying scientific research within and across all forest regions of Canada. As such this activity is characterized as aimed at all Canadians. 2BT supports tree planting across Canada, also benefiting all Canadians. 2BT has a dedicated funding stream for Indigenous projects that was co-developed with Indigenous governments and organizations, to reduce barriers to accessing funding and to take into consideration specific priorities and challenges of Indigenous Peoples. The urban tree planting stream places emphasis on human co-benefits and may directly and indirectly positively impact Canadians in lower income and racialized communities through new green spaces. The program collects employment data for underrepresented groups (such as women, Indigenous peoples, immigrants, and visible minorities) in tree planting activities.

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Percentage of projects funded through the Forest Climate Change Program that have direct and established partnerships with Indigenous communities	In 2022-23, 21% (8 of 38) of forest carbon mitigation and adaptation research projects funded through the Forest Climate Change Program had active and direct engagement with Indigenous partners.	Program reporting data – self identified in common call for proposals	Not Available
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

The Forest Climate Change Program’s activities contribute to the long-term resilience of the forest sector and forest-based communities, and the continued health of Canada’s forests. Given the close relationship between sustainable forest management, the resilience of Canada’s forests, and the socio-economic health and wellness of forest-based, rural, and remote communities, including many Indigenous communities, activities under this program contribute to an improved quality of life for those communities.

The Program will continue to demonstrate its commitment to use recruitment processes that give due consideration to gender and diversity to ensure that opportunities are equitable.

Direct impacts of the 2 Billion Trees program’s activities include the increased prevalence of Diversity and Inclusion plans among medium and large funding recipients, increased representation of currently under-represented groups in the forest sector workforce among funding recipients, and Indigenous organizations supported through the program’s co-developed Indigenous Funding stream.

As a result of GBA Plus, the 2 Billion Trees program has also incorporated diversity and inclusion considerations into the Program design and implementation. Indigenous partners shared important insights in the early stages of the program that led to a commitment to co-develop the framework this stream. In 2022-23 a co-development process was implemented to ensure funding delivery under this stream reflects diverse Indigenous cultures and priorities, while also contributing to Indigenous leadership on climate change.

After Indigenous governments and organizations unanimously shared that this funding stream should be delivered using a distinctions-based approach, 2 Billion Trees will deliver funding via allocations to First Nations, Métis, Inuit and Unaffiliated/Cross-Distinctions. This recognizes that there is no one-size-fits-all approach given the unique attributes of First Nations Peoples, Métis Peoples, Inuit, and Intersectional Peoples.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

The Forest Climate Change Program has been working with program administration on a tracking mechanism to collect GBA Plus input from funded forest carbon mitigation and adaptation research projects. Researchers will be asked for the 2023-24 fiscal year, how GBA plus considerations were included in research design. Based on responses, this question may be refined in future years.

GBA Plus considerations have been integrated into project evaluation matrices and reporting requirements as part of the 2 Billion Trees program’s data collection plan. For example, funding recipients from medium and large organizations are required to develop diversity and inclusion plans (it is recommended for small organizations). GBA Plus disaggregated data is also being collected as part of the reporting process, tracking the percentage of under-represented equity groups in the tree-planting and related activities workforce of medium and large organization funding recipients. The percentage of Indigenous-led projects that receive funding through the program is also being tracked. The 2 Billion Trees program is also engaged with the Programs Working Group on Diversity & Inclusion to collaboratively improve Diversity and Inclusion measures in G&C Programming.

Geoscience for Sustainable Development of Natural Resources

Program Goals: Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI) produces geoscience knowledge, models, and tools to improve mineral exploration effectiveness. TGI aims to hire and/or award bursaries to women and visible minorities at or above the proportion at which this occurs in the earth sciences sector. Industry groups (e.g. Women Geoscientists in Canada, Women in Mining Canada) are working towards these goals/practices.

Target Population: Federal departments and/or agencies, regulatory bodies, mining, and/or oil & gas exploration industries

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Not Available
By income level	Not Available
By age group	Not Available

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes: All Canadians

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Percentage of opportunities (for students and early-career researchers) that are given to individuals who belong to one or more groups of people traditionally underrepresented in the earth sciences sector, particularly women and visible minorities	53% of students hired and bursary recipients are women.	Voluntary disclosure of demographic information by applicants for student/early-career researcher opportunities. Collected annually and used internally to inform mid-year and end of year reporting.	Voluntary disclosure; the data is not currently available, as it is retained by HR as confidential data.
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI):

By following federal guidelines for inclusive, merit-based hiring practices, TGI aims to hire and/or award bursaries to women and visible minorities at or above the proportion at which this occurs in the earth sciences sector. The program has a GBA Plus performance indicator that measures the percentage of opportunities (for students and early-career researchers) that are given to individuals who belong to one or more groups of people traditionally underrepresented in the earth sciences sector, particularly women and visible minorities. For this indicator, the program will collect information provided on a voluntary basis from applicants from equity seeking groups who are hired or given a bursary by TGI to support program research.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI):

The program will establish annual data collection to report on its GBA Plus performance indicator through the voluntary disclosure of demographic information by applicants to student/early-career researcher opportunities. Feedback on the usefulness of the data and science by program stakeholders will be used for planning and making any required adjustments towards data and science that best serve the Canadian public.

Geological Knowledge for Canada’s Onshore and Offshore Land

Program Goals: A core mission of the GSC is to map and understand the land and its resources to support the management of Canada’s onshore and offshore lands, and their abundant resources.

The Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals (GEM) program continues to advance our knowledge of the North and, in 2020, a third iteration, called GEM-GeoNorth, has been approved to focus on mineral potential and sustainable land use for economic development in Canada’s North in the context of a changing climate. Using strategies that promote gender equality in program hiring, the program seeks to increase the accessibility of these opportunities for diverse groups of women. The program’s capacity-building opportunities, which will be designed with the guidance of partners in Northern educational institutions, could also increase labour market readiness among Northerners and Indigenous peoples, including women.

In the offshore lands, our geoscience knowledge also serves to confirm the farthest extents of the Canadian territory. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Program works with Global Affairs Canada and Fisheries and Oceans Canada to delineate the outer limits of the continental shelf in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. The long-term outcome of this program is to secure international recognition of the outer limits of Canada’s continental shelf, benefitting all Canadians. This program promotes the participation of women and Indigenous individuals in scientific activities, engagement with the public and Indigenous communities, and will ensure that employment opportunities are equally available to women, men, minority groups, and Indigenous peoples.

Target Population: The region of Canada’s North and Arctic

The program’s target client groups are:

• Scientists and technicians, via program hiring;
• Northern and Indigenous geoscience professionals, via participation in program leadership, program hiring, and participation in capacity-building opportunities;
• Universities and Northern educational institutions, via partnerships (grants & contributions) to deliver capacity-building opportunities for students;
• International scientific collaborators.

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Not Available
By income level	Not Available
By age group	Not Available

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes: These programs have direct benefits on women, individuals from remote and Northern regions, Indigenous peoples, with indirect benefits to workers in the mining sector, which is composed predominantly of men.

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics: The UNCLOS Program has filed two submissions with the United Nations showing Canada’s entitlement to approximately 3 million square kilometers of seafloor on the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles in the Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean. Sovereign rights to the living and non-living natural resources on the seafloor and below in the subsoil will benefit all Canadians.

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Program: Increasing employment opportunities in marine geoscience, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professions, in fields where Employment Equity (EE) groups have traditionally been under-represented	43% of the scientific team are represented by women, including the Executive Director. When surveys are conducted at sea, 3 Inuit persons are hired and embedded with the science team.	Program	The UNCLOS Program is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace; future hires will target EE groups (women, people with disabilities, visible minorities, and Indigenous peoples).
Geo-Mapping for Energy and Minerals (GEM-GeoNorth): Number of opportunities for students and early-career researchers, that are given to individuals who belong to one or more groups of people traditionally underrepresented in the earth sciences sector, particularly women, visible minorities, and Indigenous peoples.	FYs 21-23: Female Students: 11 Female Early Researchers: 5 Indigenous Students: 2	Voluntary disclosure of demographic information by applicants for student/early-career researcher opportunities. HR records from the GEM-GeoNorth Coordination Office.	Up from 35% (2013 – 2020)
GEM-GeoNorth: Number of grants awarded to Canadian academic institutions (including Northern educational institutions) or Indigenous groups, pertaining to geoscience research and/or capacity-building	FYs 21-23: Northern Academic Institutions: 4 Other Canadian Academic Institutions: 8 Indigenous groups & NGOs: 5	Financial records from the GEM-GeoNorth Coordination Office.	Up from 23% of grants and contribution funding to Northern organizations and Indigenous groups (2013 – 2020)
GEM-GeoNorth: Number of opportunities created for Northern students and early-career researchers (directly hired or awarded bursaries).	FYs 21-23: 12 opportunities created for early career researchers.	Human resources records from the GEM-GeoNorth Coordination Office	Up from 6 (2013-2020)
GEM-GeoNorth: Number of engagement activities with Northern communities and Indigenous groups regarding geoscience	FYs 21-23: 43 engagement activities/events in 19 communities; 18 virtual meetings with Indigenous governments	Database of GEM-GeoNorth Engagement Activities; Reports from completed engagement activities	Communities are enthusiastic for engagement; in person meetings remain the most meaningful and successful, but virtual meetings are becoming more possible as bandwidth in Canada’s North improves. Averaged at least 40 engagement activities annually (2013 – 2020)
GEM-GeoNorth: Annual number of meetings involving the Advisory Group of Northerners (AGN) or provinces & territories (P/T) in research priority-setting	FYs 21-23: AGN: 5 virtual meetings, 1 in-person meeting 2 meetings with all Directors of P/T geological surveys 4 meetings with individual P/T Directors	Folder in shared site (GCDOCS) containing meeting dates, agendas, and minutes.	17 meetings held from 2013-2020
GEM-GeoNorth: Number of contracts with Northern and/or Indigenous businesses to support the program’s fieldwork or engagement.	FYs 21-23: 38 contracts valuing approx. $423K.	Records from the GEM Coordination Office and Procurement Corporate Reporting.	Entered into 56 contracts in 2018-2019, (the last year when fieldwork was conducted). FY 23-24 is GEM’s first big field season- reporting numbers for FY 23-24 will be much higher.
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Program

During the fieldwork component of the program, more women and Indigenous individuals were introduced into the team to assist in the acquisition of scientific data and engagement with the public and Indigenous communities. At the conclusion of the surveys, science team members have visited the high school and elementary school in Kugluktuk to explain the science undertaken and to encourage students to consider careers in STEM. When in Kugluktuk, tours of the Coast Guard ship and the science labs are given to members of the Junior Canadian Rangers. The program also promoted and supported the participation of women at scientific conferences and international workshops, and all team members in professional development activities and the publication of scientific research.

The program also translated Canada’s Addendum to the Executive Summary of the 2019 Arctic Ocean submission into the two dominant dialects of Inuktitut, increasing access by Inuit people to Canada’s submission to the UN. The program expects to file the English, French, North Baffin, and Inuinnaqtun versions of the Addendum with the UN this autumn. Canada will become the first nation to file a submission in an Indigenous language under the UNCLOS Treaty process.

Future revamping of the program as team members retire will be carried out in accordance with the Public Service Employment Act to ensure employment opportunities are equally available to women, men, minority groups, and Indigenous peoples.

Geo-Mapping for Energy and Minerals (GEM-GeoNorth)

The Advisory Group of Northerners (AGN) expanded its membership from 7 to 12 members over the 2021-2022 FY. This provides enhanced and diverse input from more Northerners and Indigenous participants from the remote North.

The GEM-GeoNorth Grants and Contributions Program specifically targeted capacity building proposals during the 2022-2023 Call for Proposals to increase the number of grants awarded to promote geoscience training and capacity-building opportunities for Northerners. Also grant funding has been earmarked for Northern academia to focus on capacity-building opportunities for students.

Although women currently account for 17% of the mining workforce, initiatives by the Mining Industry Human Resources Council, Women in Mining, and several private sector firms are seeking to address the gender disparity in the mining sector by providing training and development opportunities for women in the sector. The program will consider these initiatives in designing mitigation strategies that promote gender equality in the program.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

The GEM-GeoNorth program collects sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by gender and diversity. Regarding its immediate outcome of “Involvement of stakeholders and Indigenous groups in geoscience knowledge and data generation”, the program’s performance indicators include the annual collection of disaggregated data. Several performance indicators also measure program impacts in the North, regarding availability of geoscience knowledge, and support for the Northern economy.

Geoscience to Keep Canada Safe

Program Goals: The Geoscience to Keep Canada Safe (GKCS) program comprises three activities from NRCan: the Canadian Hazards Information Service (CHIS), the Public Safety Geoscience Program (PSGP) and the Climate Change Geoscience Program (CCGP). These programs provide the foundational research and tools to support Canadians in their analysis, preparation and adaptation to natural hazards and climate change.

The CHIS program conducts monitoring and provides hazard information and products on an ongoing basis and in response to emergency situations (e.g., earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, geomagnetic storms, and radiological / nuclear incidents).

The PSGP aims to understand earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, submarine, and terrestrial landslides, and marine geohazards and their associated risks, while working closely with stakeholders to provide data and resources, and to inform safe development, land use planning, conservation efforts, and regulations. Stakeholders include emergency managers, municipal planners, utility owners and operators, regulators, private sector consultants, and others.

The CCGP conducts research and monitoring to better understand how climate change impacts permafrost, glacier melting, coastal erosion, and sea level rise to provide information and data to support land-use planning, infrastructure development, and to help industry and at-risk communities adapt.

All three programs are national in scope and aim to provide all Canadians the necessary information needed to plan and prepare for and respond to hazard events. GBA Plus considerations are being applied through and consideration of actions that can reduce barriers Canadians may face when trying to access information provided, efforts to make information widely comprehensible, and provision of educational and employment opportunities to underrepresented groups.

Target Population: All Canadians

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Not Available
By income level	Not Available
By age group	Not Available

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes:

Direct Benefits: Women, children, the elderly, and low-income groups are disproportionately affected by natural hazard events. This program seeks to provide science knowledge, tools and resources that identify, monitor, and assess natural hazards to inform risk reduction actions.

Indirect Benefits: Most of the work produced through the three programs supports policy development, planning, and adaptation which will subsequently impact vulnerable Canadians.

Barriers to Access: Most of the available resources produced through all three programs is provided online to the Canadian public. In some rural and remote areas, online connectivity is a barrier. Some material is fairly technical. The program is working to ensure that alerts use various distribution methods to reach rural and remote communities, and to ensure hazard information is reviewed for ease of comprehension and presented in a range of languages including minority languages.

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

The knowledge and data generated in this program is made available so others can make evidence-based decisions. Natural disaster events disproportionately impact women, seniors, children, low-income groups, and other vulnerable parts of society as highlighted in the United Nations Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. GKCS improves our understanding of hazards and their impacts, allowing policy makers, planners, and emergency managers to identify vulnerable populations and to tailor preparedness and emergency response plans to assist these groups (i.e., specific regions, women, elderly, low-income, children). The program is working with Indigenous groups to ensure the research is useful in their decision making to protect their citizens.

The CHIS provides authoritative, actionable, and timely information about geological hazards, space weather phenomena, and nuclear and radiological incidents. CHIS is augmenting the information it provides for earthquakes through the development of an Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) system. Starting in 2024 this program will provide free-to-recipient alerts in an easy-to-understand format provided seconds to tens-of-seconds prior to the arrival of strong shaking from major earthquakes to help reduce impacts including to those most vulnerable to natural disaster events.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

While the program does not collect sufficient data to monitor impacts by gender and diversity, information is collected for internal use for programs mid-year and end of year reports.

The program is working to determine how to measure the downstream effects on GBA Plus of the information products, science and research related to natural hazards. Across programs, the feedback on the usefulness of the data and science by stakeholders would be useful for planning and making any required adjustments toward data and science that best serves the Canadian public. Quality of life indicators could potentially be paired with Departmental Result Framework indicators concerning new and accessible knowledge products, stakeholder feedback, and application of new tools and knowledge by provincial, territorial, and federal governments.

Pest Risk Management

Program Goals: The Pest Risk Management (PRM) program delivers science-based solutions to address forest pest issues that have significant negative impacts on Canadian forest values, resources, and trade of forest products across domestic and international borders. The PRM program is incorporating GBA Plus data collection into its annual call for research proposals and conducts GBA Plus analyses for new program proposals and renewals.

Target Population: All Canadians

Distribution of Benefits

While information on population demographics is not collected at the Program level at this time, it is expected that benefits extend to a diverse group of Canadians across the country.

	Group
By gender	Not Available
By income level	Not Available
By age group	Not Available

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes: The PRM program is intended to have a positive impact for all Canadians, and in particular on the quality of life resulting from healthy forest environments in urban, rural, and remote settings. It is also intended to benefit the economy of rural and remote communities and families in Canada, whose employment and economic well-being depend on the forest industry, by protecting jobs that could be negatively affected by a forest pest outbreak, regardless of demographic group.

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

Not Available

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

A Gender-Based Analysis Plus Assessment of the program is currently underway. In addition, demographic information on the workers in forest health protection and research in Alberta will be collected and analyzed as part of the new Support for Mountain Pine Beetle Management in Alberta contribution program, although the geographic scope is restricted to Alberta. This information will allow NRCan to better understand the demography of workers in forest health protection research and operations and will help inform the development of mitigation measures where disparities are identified (i.e., the underrepresentation of women and other diversity and equity groups in the forest sector) as well as for future policy and program design. Combined, these efforts will support the program in identifying new or enhanced ways to facilitate more equitable and equal opportunities and outcomes through its work, reporting capacity and improved database.

With respect to the Mountain Pine Beetle Program, Alberta's contracts were set up in advance of the signing of the contribution agreement and did not have any reporting requirements related to demography and diversity of the contracted company employees. Thus, no GBA Plus demographic data are being collected by Alberta. However, the annual reports do include measures taken by Alberta as part of the MPB Program to avoid reinforcing existing disparities in gender or diversity inequalities in the forest and science & technology sectors, including those related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Polar Continental Shelf Program

Program Goals: The Polar Continental Shelf Program (PCSP) provides logistics services to support the growing demand for Canadian Arctic science and innovation research. The PCSP aims to strengthen the resilience of Indigenous communities through engagement, training, and employment opportunities; enhance economic benefits for Northerners; gain an understanding of the implications of climate change on Arctic terrestrial and marine ecosystems; and support Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic.

Target Population: Canadian Arctic researchers, federal and territorial governments, and Indigenous and northern organizations and communities

Distribution of Benefits

Not Available – with regard to distribution of benefits by gender, the distribution varies depending on measures – e.g., principal investigator vs. students.

	Group
By gender	Second group: 60 per cent - 79 per cent men
By income level	Not Available
By age group	Not Available

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes:

Direct beneficiaries: Men, women, minority groups, and Indigenous peoples

Indirect beneficiaries: Indigenous peoples as partners within research, and youth becoming the next generation of scientists.

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

The Polar Continental Shelf Program (PCSP) has incorporated measures into its project selection process to improve equity, diversity, and inclusion. University-based applicants who request logistics support from the PCSP must include details about how they consider Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in their project planning and recruitment. In addition, all applicants are required to provide details about how Indigenous and local involvement and engagement would be incorporated into their project plans. The EDI and Indigenous and local involvement criteria combined make up 15% of the overall score awarded in the assessment of projects.

The PCSP has also implemented measures to ensure early career researchers and researchers with career interruptions (e.g., parental leave) are not disadvantaged in the selection process for supported projects. After the Project Review Committee evaluates and scores applications, an automatic bump up in specific scores is given to early career researchers (within 5 years of starting their academic career). Additionally, researchers who identify career interruptions are able to extend the evidence provided in their application by the equivalent amount of time prior to the career interruption. For example, if an applicant was off for one-year sick leave, they can extend their publication record back by one year.

These measures help to ensure PCSP services are equally available to men, women, minority groups, and Indigenous peoples; encourage equity, diversity, and inclusion in science; promote Indigenous peoples as partners within research; and foster the next generation of scientists.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Polar Continental Shelf Program Science Report 2019: Logistical support for leading-edge scientific research in Canada and its Arctic (nrcan.gc.ca)

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

The program began collecting non-binary gender data for Principal Investigators requesting support through its on-line logistics service request form in 2022. Analysis of this data each year will provide an indication of whether PCSP services are equally available to all genders and will allow for a measure of how uptake of the program by gender changes over time.

The program has identified the need to collect disaggregated data beyond gender. A program survey that was conducted in 2021 was available in four languages (English, French, Inuktitut, and Inuinnaqtun) and gathered data on gender, ethnicity, age, disability, career stage, Indigenous status, and location of residence for all project participants, which was an improvement on previous surveys that only captured information about project leaders/principal investigators.

The results from this survey will be used in 2023-24 to guide next steps in the collection of disaggregated GBA Plus data and will support the development of a systematic method to gather this data each year from supported project participants.

The PCSP provided feedback to university-led project applicants in early 2023 to help improve the Indigenous and local involvement and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion components of each project.

Wildfire Risk Management

Program Goals: This program provides fundamental and applied science to help governments, industries, communities, and citizens adapt and live with wildfire impacts. GBA Plus was applied by providing and developing resources that help planners and emergency services to protect most-at-risk populations from wildfires, especially Indigenous and rural and remote communities in forested areas.

Target Population: All Canadians, especially those threatened by wildfires or their effects.

Distribution of Benefits

While, this program benefits all Canadians, the distribution of benefits are felt most by those demographic groups and populations who are disproportionately vulnerable to and threatened by wildfires, and their effects.

	Group
By gender	Not Available
By income level	Not Available
By age group	Not Available

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes: Rural and remote citizens, as well as Indigenous people – primarily First Nations and Métis in forested areas - are disproportionately affected by wildfire in Canada.

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Not Available	Indigenous people are disproportionately evacuated due to wildfires	Canadian Forest Service science publications and Evacuation database	Not Available
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

The Wildland Fire Risk Management Program (the fire program) seeks to advance more equitable opportunities and outcomes in wildfire management through Indigenous engagement and collaboration, including through the implementation of Indigenous focused recommendations in the Blueprint for Wildland Fire Science in Canada (2019 to 2029), which was developed by the Canadian Forest Service Wildfire program through broad consultations. This 10-year research agenda recognizes the value and importance of Indigenous knowledge and the need to collaborate with Indigenous peoples for better wildland fire management.

The program continues to engage Indigenous partners, and regularly collaborates with Indigenous Nations and organizations on research projects and programming including co-development, fieldwork, data analysis, knowledge exchange and wildland firefighter training and employment supports. Since 2019-20 the Emergency Management Strategy Grants and Contributions program has supported a variety of Indigenous fire-related research projects and proponents including the First Nation Wildfire Evacuation Partnership, the Métis Nation of Alberta 3, and others. The program has funded initial work towards possible establishment of an Indigenous-led National Indigenous Fire Working Group. Additionally, the Fighting and Managing Wildfires in a Changing Climate (FMWCC) grants and contributions program strengthens capacities and capabilities in fire management in Indigenous communities through investments in wildland firefighter training and the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge in fire management.

In 2022-23, the program funded consultations, led by an Indigenous consultant firm, with Indigenous Organizations for the formation of an Indigenous Wildland Fire Management Working Group. Governance for the Working Group has been established by a Steering Committee, and the Terms of Reference for the Working Group are expected to be developed in 2023-24.

The fire program will continue to foster the values of diversity and inclusion through national and international movements and related working groups such as the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) and the North American Forestry Commission’s Fire Management Working Group. In the spirit of GBA Plus, NRCan will support 2022 and 2023-24 government commitments by supporting the training of Indigenous firefighters and the pilot project results will be examined in 2023-24.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

In order to maintain data on populations most impacted by wildfire in Canada, the program maintains a Canadian Wildland Fire Evacuation database that includes evacuation events from 1980 to current. This database is updated annually.

The fire program has taken steps to further integrate GBA Plus into program design and delivery to advance inclusion throughout program operations. This includes creating GBA Plus and Indigenous program performance indicators, strengthening the application process to incorporate lines of GBA Plus questions and requiring proponents to report on GBA Plus information through regular activity and performance reports. These changes are currently being applied to programs established after the 2021-2022 fiscal year and efforts are being made to update existing programming to strengthen GBA Plus reporting, where applicable.

In 2023-24, the Wildfire Program will continue to support and collect data regarding Indigenous programming and other GBA Plus impacts from programs started in 2022-23. In addition, the Wildfire Program will consult with the other science programs on data collection best practices and tools.

Core Responsibility: Innovative and Sustainable Natural Resources Development

Energy Innovation and Clean Technology

Program Goals: The Energy Innovation and Clean Technology program, delivered by the Office of Energy Research and Development (OERD), supports research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) of emerging clean technologies to accelerate the transformation of Canada’s energy system to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. In 2022-23, OERD continued to implement a Phased Approach to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) for its grants and contributions programs to help understand the short-, medium- and long-term impacts of its programs and who benefits from the funded clean energy technologies.

Target Population: Specific sector or segment of the economy: Science and technology industry; Energy and/or utilities sector; Provincial & territorial governments

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Not Available
By income level	Not Available
By age group	Not Available

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes:

Direct beneficiaries: Workers, innovators, academics, and researchers in the clean energy technology sector, who are predominantly highly educated white men.

Indirect beneficiaries: Clean energy technology sector, low-income individuals and households, rural and remote communities, women, children and youth, and Indigenous Peoples.

Groups that may face barriers to access/participation: Groups historically underrepresented in the energy sector, such as women, racialized people, and Indigenous Peoples.

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

In 2022-23, OERD’s IDEA Community of Practice continued to implement its Phased Approach to IDEA. By leveraging the Phased Approach, OERD took steps to identify, assess, and implement actionable steps to address barriers to access and participation to its RD&D programs by different underrepresented groups and to integrate GBA Plus into program design and delivery in order to advance inclusion throughout program operations for both new and ongoing programs. This method is already supporting the application of GBA Plus to program analysis and evaluation for past and current programming.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

Through the implementation of its Phased Approach to IDEA, OERD adopted a methodical approach to increase the inclusion of IDEA in program scoping, design, delivery, implementation, reporting, and evaluation through GBA Plus.

The Phased Approach begins with establishing a baseline through data collection (requesting voluntary IDEA information in project proposals and requesting disaggregated employment and training data for women and gender-diverse people and Indigenous Peoples from funded proponents) in order to better understand the state of GBA Plus in the clean energy technology sector and identify gaps that need to be addressed. The IDEA data collected will then be used to explore possibilities for implementation of targeted interventions to reduce barriers to access and participation in OERD’s RD&D programs.

Cumulative Effects

Program Goals: The CE program develops knowledge, data, tools, strategies, and capacity to manage cumulative effects in Canada through multidisciplinary science and collaborative partnerships. The CE Program focuses on impacts and risks to forest ecosystem values resulting mostly from non forestry resource development activities, in addition to natural events and processes and climate change.

From 2018-19 to 2022-23 the CE program provided G&Cs funding to Indigenous communities to increase knowledge and capacity around woodland caribou protection and habitat restoration on Indigenous lands. In doing so, the CE Program tracks GBA Plus data of researchers receiving CE program funds.

Target Population: All Canadians

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Second group: 60 per cent - 79 per cent men
By income level	Not Available
By age group	Not Available

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes: The CE program supports Indigenous communities with contribution agreements for caribou habitat research.

At a larger scale, by advancing the science and research required to prevent and mitigate the potential risks and impacts of cumulative effects in Canada’s forests, the Cumulative Effects Program has the potential to contribute to improved quality of life in rural forested communities who could benefit from reduced impacts on the environment and forest habitat. Also, knowledge products and tools developed through the program can help stakeholders engage in decision making around restoration, forest management and land use for the benefit of communities as a whole.

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Principal investigator gender distribution of Cumulative Effects funded project for the 2022-23 fiscal year	15/25 male (60%) 10/25 female (40%)	Program Reporting Data
Percentage of projects funded in 2022-23 through the Cumulative Effects Program that have direct and established partnerships with Indigenous communities	39% (9 of 25 projects)	Program Reporting Data
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

These partnerships (with Indigenous communities) have produced opportunities for Indigenous communities to apply and enhance their knowledge in woodland caribou protection and habitat restoration and expand their networks across stakeholder groups.

Over the past five years the program had 8 Contribution Agreements with various Indigenous Communities where we were able to fund research pertaining to woodland caribou protection and habitat restoration. Furthermore, it funded 9 CFS-led research projects in the 22-23 fiscal year directly with Indigenous partners, specifically collaborating where projects require integrated knowledge between CE researchers and Indigenous communities.

While G&Cs funding was not renewed in Budget 2023, CFS researchers will continue to incorporate Indigenous engagement in research efforts when and where possible.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

The Program currently tracks data pertaining to gender distribution of program funds. The program will consider opportunities in the future to improve on existing reporting capacity and to better understand GBA Plus impacts as research matures through time. Discussions continue to be underway to examine GBA Plus reporting processes and the required data that would be the most appropriate. It is anticipated that in future funding processes (Common Call for Proposals) additional GBA Plus related questions (such as how GBA Plus ideals will be included in a project and how Indigenous communities can be involved) will be added to collect data and reflect the GBA Plus component in the reporting processes. Enhanced data will therefore be available once this component becomes a requirement in the proposal and reporting process, likely within the next year or two- in the call for proposals process.

Energy and Climate Change Policy

Program Goals:

The Equality in Energy Transitions Initiative (EETI)

The initiative’s goal is to advance gender equality in the clean energy sector globally through data collection, policy development, promoting leadership and opportunities for women, raising ambition within public and private organizations, and establishing robust networks to collectively advance the initiative’s objectives. GBA Plus is applied through all aspects of the initiative and its workstreams, as its main focus is to assess how women, and all marginalized communities, are impacted by the clean energy transition.

Sustainable Jobs Plan (SJP)

In February 2023, NRCan released the interim Sustainable Jobs Plan detailing concrete federal actions to advance economic prosperity and sustainable jobs in every region of the country, including efforts to advance skills development, promote Indigenous-led solutions and gender equality in a low-carbon future. GBA Plus is applied through all aspects of the sustainable jobs initiative, as detailed in the plan, as an overarching objective of sustainable jobs is to help to make the labour market more inclusive and encourage the participation of previously underrepresented groups. As this initiative is new and not yet fully underway, no outcomes have been identified to date.

Target Population: EETI - The global clean energy sector

SJP - Canadians in sectors implicated in the low-carbon transition; Canadians interested in sustainable jobs opportunities, including from groups underrepresented in the labour force; and firms/industries who are looking for workers/skillsets in the net-zero economy.

Distribution of Benefits

	EETI - Group
By gender	Fifth group: Predominantly women (e.g., 80 per cent or more women)
By income level	Third group: No significant distributional impacts
By age group	Second group: No significant inter-generational impacts or impacts generation between youth and seniors
	SJP - Group
By gender	Second group: 60 per cent - 79 per cent men
By income level	Third group: No significant distributional impacts
By age group	Second group: No significant inter-generational impacts or impacts generation between youth and seniors

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes:

EETI

Direct beneficiaries: Women, all marginalized communities

Indirect beneficiaries: Global clean energy sector

SJP

Direct beneficiaries: It is expected that the actions under the plan, such as legislation, will positively benefit workers in transition implicated sectors, notably in the natural resource, construction and energy industries in Canada.

Indirect beneficiaries: Those working in indirect or induced jobs, such as industries that supply goods and services to the energy sector like engineering construction, machinery and equipment, professional services, and transportation services.

Based on GBA Plus, key demographics relevant to sustainable jobs include:

• The environmental and clean technology (ECT) sector workforce is predominantly male, with 64% of jobs in the ECT sector held by men and 36% held by women.
• This composition is consistent with that of the high-emitting industries which will be affected by the low-carbon transition. For example, in 2019, 36% of workers in the oil and gas sector were women. Therefore, it is expected that, in nominal terms, men will benefit more from this proposal than women.
• These industries are also significant employers of Indigenous Peoples. In 2019, Indigenous People made up 4.9% of the energy sector workforce, whereas they made up 3.6 % of Canada’s overall economy in 2021.
• Furthermore, 26% of oil and gas workers in 2019 belonged to a visibility minority.
• Finally, in 2019, immigrants represented 29.3% of energy sector employees compared to 26.6% of total economy in 2021.
• While this proposal will present an opportunity for any Canadian worker, whether low or high income, to access skills training to move into higher-paying employment, it will have notable impacts on Canadians currently in the oil and gas sector which has an above average salary, compared to the Canadian workforce overall.

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
The Equality in Energy Transitions Initiative Member Governments	Grown to 13 member governments as of March 2023. (Australia, Austria, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, European Commission, Finland, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA)	Equality in Energy Transitions Initiative website	The membership in the initiative increased by two over the reporting period, with Germany and Switzerland joining.
Equal by 30 Number of Signatories	192 signatories have joined as of March 2023, representing a broad range of industries and organizations across over 25 countries and several energy sub-sectors.	Equal by 30 website	The number of signatories increased by 13 from April 2022 to March 2023.
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

Canada chaired the Equality in Energy Transitions Initiative and continued to lead the Equal by 30 campaign, and the Awards & Recognition Program, under the Equality Initiative.

Equal by 30 Campaign

The campaign has used international fora, such as the G7, the International Energy Agency, the Clean Energy Ministerial, and the UN, to mobilize support, increase participation in the initiative, and amplify messaging around the importance of advancing gender equality in the global energy sector.

Signatories have developed over 325 commitments, in an effort to advance equity, diversity, and inclusivity in their respective organizations. These commitments have led to meaningful change for employees, particularly from marginalized communities, within individual workplaces, as well as aiding in changing the culture in the energy sector. Signatories have implemented policies and practices to support marginalized groups, including increasing representation, creating a more inclusive environment, ensuring fair management practices, supporting career development, and ensuring safe workplaces that are free of harassment and discrimination.

Canada worked with Germany to release a G7 progress report on Equal by 30 commitments and advancements towards greater equality in the energy sector.

Awards & Recognition Program

Canada recognized women’s achievements and organizational progress on gender equality in clean energy globally through leadership of the Equality in Energy Transitions Initiative’s awards program, presented at the Global Clean Energy Action Forum in Pittsburgh, USA in September 2022. Awards were provided for Woman of Distinction and Organizational Leadership. A new awards category was launched recognizing an Emerging Leader. The Awards Program has been recognized by Equality Initiative members, partners, and award winners as successfully achieving its goal to highlight the positive contributions that women and organizations are making to advance the energy transition, including efforts to improve equity, diversity, and inclusion in the sector.

The Sustainable Jobs Plan

The Sustainable Jobs Plan details a new initiative currently being implemented. It lays out the Government’s approach and next steps to build economic prosperity and sustainable jobs across Canada. More specifically, the plan outlines 10 key federal action areas to help advance significant economic opportunities that create good jobs for Canadians across the country on our way to net-zero emissions by 2050. Notably, this plan aims to establish a federal framework for accountability, a governance structure, and engagement mechanisms, as outlined in the proposed sustainable jobs legislation introduced in the House of Parliament in June 2023 – Bill C-50, the Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act. This legislation will require the development of new Sustainable Jobs Action Plan every five years, beginning in 2025.

While no direct program impacts on gender and diversity have been realized to date, the proposed includes a set of principles aimed at enshrining a people-centered approach to the Government’s actions in this area. Notably, the principles highlight the following:

• a sustainable jobs approach should be inclusive and address barriers to employment with an emphasis on encouraging the creation of employment opportunities for groups underrepresented in the labour market, including women, persons with disabilities, Indigenous peoples, Black and other racialized individuals, 2SLGBTQI+ and other equity-seeking groups.

Furthermore, the plan aligns with existing relevant initiatives and programs, including the Equality in Energy Transitions Initiative and Equal by 30 campaign, detailed below.

Supplementary Information Sources:

The Equal by 30 Reporting Framework

The Equality in Energy Transitions website

Equal by 30 website

G7 Report on Gender and Diversity in the Energy Sector

Sustainable Jobs Plan

Bill C-50, An Act respecting accountability, transparency and engagement to support the creation of sustainable jobs for workers and economic growth in a net-zero economy

Sustainable Jobs - Canada.ca

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

There is a persistent lack of disaggregated data around gender, as well as broader inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility metrics, in the global energy sector, which presents an obstacle to fully understanding the underlying barriers for designing and implementing policies to advance equality. To combat this challenge, the Equal by 30 campaign is continuing to develop data collection and reporting exercises, allowing the sector to identify and address key areas for improvement, while emphasizing the importance of a people-centered approach, and ensuring that marginalized communities, in particular, are central to energy transition efforts.

In 2022-23, the campaign developed a self-assessment tool, to be launched in July 2023, to help signatories evaluate their progress on implementing equity, diversity, accessibility, and inclusion practices within their workplace. Signatories will be able to self-evaluate against the three main objectives of the campaign – equal pay, equal leadership, and equal opportunities, as well as the four main areas for improvement identified through the 2021 Equal by 30 Reporting Framework - culture, fair management, career development, and workplace safety/harassment, and track their progress on the road to 2030.

The Sustainable Jobs Plan includes a commitment to improve labour market data collection, tracking and analysis. To deliver on this commitment, the Sustainable Jobs Secretariat, to be established in late 2023, will develop a more robust approach to measuring the labour market impacts and outlook of the development of the net-zero economy, tailored to the needs of the sustainable jobs initiative. This work will include leveraging ongoing work happening across the federal government and other relevant partners to address gaps, including the need to publish Indigenous-specific metrics. Efforts will be made to share this data in a useful way to ensure it can be accessed by those making decisions related to sustainable jobs, including workers, employers, and skills training organizations.

Energy Efficiency

Program Goals: The Energy Efficiency Program (EEP) aims to encourage and enable the use and implementation of cleaner and more energy efficient technologies, products and practices through activities (e.g., collaboration, standards, certifications, product specifications, building codes, tools, and grants and contributions), and outputs targeting energy consumers, industry, the housing and building sectors and equipment manufacturers.

Encompassing many initiatives, the program considers the intersectional gender-based barriers in the energy efficiency sector in Canada to inform future inclusive policy-making.

Target Population: The general public; Indigenous peoples; energy consumers; federal organizations; Indigenous businesses; energy producers; service providers and stakeholders in the industry; building, housing, and equipment sectors; Indigenous communities; and provincial, territorial, and municipal governments across Canada.

Distribution of Benefits

For the Canada Greener Homes Initiative (one initiative under energy efficiency program)

	Group
By gender	Second group: 60 per cent - 79 per cent men
By income level	Fourth group: Somewhat benefits high income individuals (Somewhat regressive)
By age group	Second group: No significant inter-generational impacts or impacts generation between youth and seniors

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes:

The Canada Greener Homes Initiative (CGHI) directly benefits energy consumers in Canada by reducing energy consumption, which lowers energy costs, and by decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, including from federal government operations. The initiative includes a stream to promote equities for Indigenous peoples as an under-represented group.

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

The Energy Efficiency Program analyses the GBA Plus impacts resulting from Canada’s energy efficiency programming to inform policy and program delivery, design, and implementation, and to promote equities among gender-diverse and under-represented groups, including Indigenous peoples.

In 2022-23, GBA Plus analysis was used to develop new options to help remove barriers to program access. For example, the Oil to Heat Pump Affordability (OHPA) Grant was designed and launched in February 2023, focusing on low- to median-income households, which include Indigenous peoples, women, youth under 30, and racialized people.

The Canada Greener Homes Initiative (CGHI) adapted flexibilities for Indigenous applicants and opened an Indigenous community-based stream to address barriers to program access. Extensive outreach has been undertaken with 3 national Indigenous organizations, 181 First Nations governments, 5 Inuit governments and organizations, 8 Métis governments, and 8 housing corporations and other representative organizations. By March 2023, 36 applications have been received for Indigenous community retrofit projects and are at different stages of development - from received to signed. These proposals are seeking $46 million in NRCan funding to conduct 7,255 potential home retrofits. Discussions are ongoing about options to provide more flexibility to accommodate partners' readiness and co-delivery. The CGHI also includes recruitment and/or training of Indigenous energy advisors to build local capacity, to improve access in rural, northern, and remote communities, and to reduce barriers to participation in the energy efficiency workforce. Agreements are signed with 5 partners (Indigenous Governments or community developments) for recruitment, training and mentoring of up to 86 new Indigenous energy advisors.

The Toward Net-Zero Homes and Communities Initiative supports the implementation of residential tools and methods to improve energy efficiency and capacity in Indigenous, rural, remote, and under-resourced communities, and put in place measures (i.e., funding and reporting flexibilities) to ease the challenges faced by Indigenous groups at program application.

In 2022-23, to further explore Indigenous priorities about green buildings/housing, the program continued to engage with Indigenous governments and organizations as part of the development of the Canada Green Buildings Strategy (CGBS) and published an engagement report in August 2023. Indigenous Clean Energy Social Enterprise (ICE) was also commissioned to work on a report to analyse the barriers Indigenous partners experience around the uptake of energy efficiency solutions broadly in Canada and recommend ways to better enable their efforts. A report from ICE will be published in 2023-24.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

Previous research identified the barriers inherent in the energy efficiency sector. The ICE study sought to build on this by further exploring Indigenous perceptions, needs and barriers to the uptake of energy efficiency solutions in Canada.

The program conducted a quantitative analysis on energy affordability using 2021 Census data, particularly for Indigenous households, to determine how their housing characteristics and energy poverty rates differ from other Canadian households. The analysis gives information on energy poverty likelihood, considering costs of shelter/housing compared to household income.

All studies will inform how we develop and improve data collection and analysis tools to assess the impacts of various initiatives.

Generally speaking, initiatives have various data collection methods (i.e., contribution agreements, progress reports, service organizations, anonymized & voluntary surveys). The aim is to enable better disaggregation of data.

Electricity Resources

Green Infrastructure electricity programs

Program Goals: The Clean Energy for Rural and Remote Communities (CERRC) program will reduce reliance on diesel and fossil fuels in Indigenous, rural, and remote communities by deploying and demonstrating renewable energy projects, building skills, and capacity. The program prioritizes Indigenous projects and the participation of women and youth.

The Smart Renewables and Electrification Pathways Program (SREPs) provides funding for smart renewable energy and electrical grid modernization projects. GBA Plus analysis was applied to the initial program design, evaluation, and delivery.

Target Population: All Canadians

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Second group: 60 per cent - 79 per cent men
By income level	Third group: No significant distributional impacts
By age group	Second group: No significant inter-generational impacts or impacts generation between youth and seniors

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes:

CERRC

• Direct beneficiaries: Indigenous Peoples, people living in jurisdictions reliant on fossil fuel generated electricity, workers in the clean energy and electricity sectors.
• Indirect beneficiaries: clean energy and electricity sectors.
• Groups that may face barriers to access/participation: women, older people.
• Groups that may face negative impacts from program activities: Fossil fuel industry, workers in fossil fuel industry, who are predominantly men.

SREPs

• Direct beneficiaries: Indigenous Peoples, people living in jurisdictions reliant on fossil fuel generated electricity, workers in the clean energy and electricity sectors.
• Indirect beneficiaries: clean energy and electricity sectors.
• Groups that may face barriers to access/participation: women, youth, racialized people, Indigenous people, and others historically underrepresented in the clean energy sector.
• Groups that may face negative impacts from program activities: Fossil fuel industry, workers in fossil fuel industry.

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Number of Indigenous communities with clean energy projects	169 Indigenous communities	Program reports and program data collection	93 projects in 142 communities total, of which 131 are Indigenous, under the Clean Energy for Rural and Remote Communities Program. 38 projects with Indigenous ownership under the Smart Renewable and Electrification Pathways Program.
Number of jobs for youth	TBD	Program reports and program data collection	Final Reports have not been received. Results are TBD.
Number of jobs for women	TBD	Program reports and program data collection	Final Reports have not been received. Results are TBD. Officials expect that for the Smart Renewables and Electricity Pathways Program 23.32% of jobs created will go to women.
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

These programs help reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions and encourage sustainable growth in the electricity sector by providing communities with job opportunities, skills, and training.

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NRCan is part of a single-window approach with CIRNAC, ISC, ECCC, and Infrastructure Canada to reduce barriers and make funding for transitioning to clean energy in Indigenous, rural, and remote communities more accessible.

NRCan incorporated flexibilities into the CERRC program to increase participation of diverse groups:

• Uses advances to enable recipients to start their projects;
• Pays honoraria for Indigenous elders to facilitate participation in the projects;
• Ensures diversity on review committees;
• Encourages participation of youth in projects to help with their integration in the natural resources sector; and,
• Includes translation of project materials as an eligible cost

Smart Renewables and Electrification Pathways Program (SREPs)

SREPs incorporated measures to increase benefits and enable the participation of underrepresented groups within the electricity sector:

• All deployment project applicants submitted an EDI plan or signed onto a relevant EDI commitment.
• Funding was set aside for Indigenous-owned projects.
• Indigenous projects were able to access favourable funding limits.
• EDI activities such as training were included as eligible expenditures.
• Honoraria and costs associated with Indigenous ceremonies were eligible expenditures.

Program funding was set aside for the Capacity Building stream which focuses on technical studies, mentoring, apprenticeships, training, workshops, engagement opportunities, and developing EDI plans.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

Annual data collection and reporting templates for certain programs (e.g., Smart Grid Program, CERRC) collect gender-disaggregated data that aligns with program goals. Further, training and hiring metrics are collected at gender-disaggregated levels and align with Statistics Canada terminology (e.g., female, male, and gender diverse).

SREPs Data Collection

SREPs will continue to collect disaggregated data from proponents at the final reporting stage on jobs created. The data will include job numbers of men, women, gender diverse people, racialized persons, Indigenous people, youth, and persons with disabilities. The program is also tracking data on Indigenous ownership, number of Indigenous communities involved in projects and progress, and challenges implementing EDI plans and commitments.

CERRC Data Collection

The CERRC program collects, disaggregates, and tracks data annually for renewable energy projects in rural and remote communities by region, Indigenous ownership, and participation. This includes measuring the percentage and number of projects led by or partnered with Indigenous groups. The program collects disaggregated data regarding participation of women and youth.

Fibre Solutions

Program Goals: The mission of the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre (CWFC) is to develop knowledge, tools and approaches aimed at reducing the risks to the forest fibre supply of Canada. By developing and deploying innovative, sustainable, evidence-based solutions that directly meet the needs of end users, CWFC supports economic development, Canada’s transition to a low-carbon economy, effective stewardship of forest resources, and the resiliency of forests to the impacts of climate change.

Target Population: Forest sector

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Not Available
By income level	Not Available
By age group	Not Available

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes: All Canadians, with direct benefits to the forest sector, women, and Indigenous peoples.

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

Proponents to the CWFC Contribution Agreement Program were required to address GBA Plus issues and IDEA plans. Final payment upon project completion also required recipients to submit results of their GBA Plus action plans on the project’s work.

GBA Plus Action Plans have been put in place by FIP external partners. They have been encouraged to increase participation by women as research and project team members, and address any barriers. Due to the need for specific expertise for projects, women research project members were not always available.

The program is committed to ensuring equity, diversity, and inclusion through our external partners in building their research teams and recruiting students for the duration of the proposed research and beyond. Our partners are committed to ensuring that current and future teams are representative of Canadian demographics, and that they benefit from the training, professional development and skills needed to work in a diverse team. The key priority was to provide equal opportunities for research team members, and to provide students with a learning environment that valued equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

The CWFC has started the collection of Diversity and Inclusion data from 2022-23 Forest Innovation Program CWFC contribution program proponents. This data will be analyzed for changes and trends after all final reports have been received. Data is also collected to evaluate the potential impacts of the FIP funding allocated through the NSERC Canadian Forest Sector Workforce Diversity undergraduate supplement. FIP's contribution to this scholarship is another example of a CFS initiative that aims to improve representation and diversity in the forest sector. The program receives demographic data from NSERC on the recipients of this funding to get a sense of which equity seeking groups are benefitting from the scholarship and receiving support to pursue forest sector research projects and careers. Based on the results, additional information may be required from proponents in future Calls for Proposals, such as more definitive plans or requirements to apply GBA Plus principles and policies.

A final version is anticipated in late 2023 and will be distributed for internal review and information.

Green Mining Innovation

Program Goals: CanmetMINING works in partnership with stakeholders to address the mining industry’s challenges such as productivity and costs, digital innovation, license to operate, decarbonization, and environment and social risks. Our key priorities are focused on R&D towards clean technology adoption, critical & battery minerals, mining value from waste, digital applications in mining, deep mining, climate change, and environmental impact assessment. Internal discussions are currently underway to examine GBA Plus reporting processes that would be the most appropriate for the program and for the development of a GBA Plus Data Collection Action Plan.

Target Population: Specific regions or sectors: The mining industry and the mining innovation ecosystem

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Not Available
By income level	Not Available
By age group	Not Available

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes:

Direct beneficiaries: Workers, innovators, academics, and researchers in the mining sector, who are predominantly highly educated white men.

Indirect beneficiaries: Mining & minerals sector low-income individuals and households, rural and remote communities, women, children and youth, and Indigenous Peoples.

Groups that may face barriers to access/participation: Groups historically underrepresented in the Mining & minerals sector.

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

This strategic research and development program is delivered by NRCan’s CanmetMINING laboratories. The program has two key objectives: to reduce the environmental impacts of mining and to improve Canada’s competitiveness. Strong environmental performance is closely linked to the long-term economic growth of the mining industry and is essential for maintaining public trust in Canada’s development of its mineral resources. In undertaking this work, NRCan is focused on five priority areas: energy efficiency, enhanced productivity, waste management, water management, and climate change. Several specialized services such as the production of certified reference materials and diesel engine certification are also delivered by the program.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

In the course of the next period, fiscal year 2024, the program will determine key statistic indicators to understand and address GBA Plus considerations and will put in place a data collection for the program. Anticipated area of concern will be regional (geographical lens) and workforce distribution.

While CanmetMINING does not have sufficient data to-date to determine the degree to which GBA Plus has affected its outcomes and impacts for different groups, there may be opportunities in the future to improve the reporting capacity and understanding of GBA Plus impacts, as research matures through time. Discussions are underway to examine GBA Plus reporting processes that would be the most appropriate. To that end, CanmetMINING is now developing a GBA Plus Data Collection Action Plan. It is proposed that as of Fall 2023, CanmetMINING begin tracking participation in CanmetMINING-led stakeholder workshops through a gender/diversity lens using voluntary disclosure of demographic information by participants attending each individual workshop. In addition, it is proposed that as of Fall 2023, CanmetMINING begin the incorporation of GBA Plus data collection as part of the voluntary client satisfaction surveys that are regularly sent following the completion of each external client service contract.

Innovative Geospatial Solutions

Program Goals: This program delivers and enables geospatial data innovation and experimentation through research and development into new technologies, interoperability, technology transfer, methods, standardization and product (new forms of evidence) delivery of ways to observe the Earth. The program and its stakeholders create new science, data and tools to collect, supply, use and share information to support critical and emerging GoC priorities, while taking a gender- and diversity-sensitive approach to our work.

Target Population: All Canadians

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Third group: Broadly gender-balanced
By income level	Third group: No significant distributional impacts
By age group	Second group: No significant inter-generational impacts or impacts generation between youth and seniors

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes: Women, Indigenous communities

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Funded 3 projects that directly support addressing geospatial issues within Indigenous communities	Not Available	Not Available	Funded through the GeoConnections program
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

This program aims to inspire girls into STEM and facilitate Indigenous Inclusion Projects through:

• Building Northern capacity and education to encourage women and girls to collect and share UAV-based mapping products.
• Community outreach and capacity building in Inuvik, NWT.
• Training women and girls, Indigenous youth, and community members in the field of geomatics through Indigenous Mapping Workshops that provide access to geospatial data, software, and analytic techniques.

Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation

The Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation (CCMEO) incorporates principles of equality for all marginalized groups into the design of its programs, tools, innovation, and outputs. The successful implementation considers how all users of geospatial data and tools interact with CCMEO outputs; incorporating equal access, active engagement, and input to define tools and research and addressing barriers to improve such access.

The program recognizes the need for NRCan to include Indigenous data sovereignty principles when developing projects and initiatives. Additionally, guidance documents and knowledge products have been published to support Indigenous communities in the governance of their data resources.

CCMEO’s activities related to the implementation of infrastructure aims to drive innovation in Canada and improve competitiveness and streamline processes and practices across the federal government to improve efficiencies. As such, this activity will enable downstream applications and activities that contribute to NRCan’s program: Innovative Geospatial Solutions.

GeoConnections

The geospatial digital transformation process that GeoConnections endorses through participation in innovation projects lower barriers, promotes inclusion and increases decision-making capacity for members of underrepresented groups.

We are lowering barriers by improving offline access to digital web map and location content which helps Indigenous and rural Canadians access and use information closer to where natural resources development occurs. Connectivity and bandwidth are more significant considerations for rural and Indigenous Canadians than for urban communities. Advancements in web standards will also impact users with accessibility challenges by providing visual and auditory web browser options embedded in maps to provide accessibility options to those with disabilities.

Through its contribution program, GeoConnections is currently funding innovative geospatial solutions that address geospatial issues within Indigenous communities and jurisdictions. These projects are focussing on resource management, climate change resilience and Indigenous place names.

Indigenous communities are beginning to implement geospatial capabilities to enhance the preservation and proper stewardship of Traditional Indigenous Knowledge.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

Data collected for this program is qualitative in nature, case studies were previously used and provided information that facilitated a better understanding of the program, but these case studies are no longer assisting the program. As such, the program is seeking guidance on the best way to enable future monitoring and results beyond narrative reports and/or case studies.

The beginning of 2023 saw the creation of a new stakeholder survey to evaluate the use of our Innovative Geospatial Solutions. Future iterations of this survey hope to provide more information on GBA Plus considerations.

Flood mapping specific GBA Plus data collection

Given that the focus of the Flood Hazard Identification and Mapping program (FHIMP) is to increase flood hazard information and maps. The program will improve the resilience of vulnerable populations by increasing the availability and accessibility of flood hazard information and maps. In alignment with GBA Plus considerations, the following may be collected and monitored for the duration of the program:

1. Equal Access to Flood Hazard Information and Maps: FHIMP will track key parameters identified as contributing to an individual’s vulnerability to floods to ensure the program is reaching them. The main means to gather this information will be through census data (and possibly voluntary surveys). Data points gathered could include gender, ethnicity, location (urban vs. rural), housing situation, level of education, etc. The surveys may be done in collaboration with PT partners, leveraging analytics collected from their dissemination platforms and their network of local project partners and contractors.
2. Inclusion of Traditional Knowledge: FHIMP aims to leverage already existing Indigenous technical working-groups, governance structures and internal Indigenous expertise to offer support to PTs to engage with Indigenous communities. Data will be collected by examining the extent of overall Indigenous engagement with the program, as well as by collecting qualitative information from Indigenous partners and stakeholders, which could include focus groups and surveys as well as oral histories and stories of community experiences.
3. Employment in STEM Fields: For its own internal hires, FHIMP will track how well it reflects departmental commitments on diversity and inclusion to increase representation of Black people and other racialized groups, Indigenous People, and persons with disabilities.

The FHIMP represents an opportunity to identify, in collaboration with federal, provincial, territorial, and Indigenous jurisdictions, areas and communities vulnerable to floods. In the future, flood risk areas may be cross-referenced with socio-economic and demographic characteristics to derive more detailed information about the communities, to enable their use within further initiatives related to natural disasters and emergency management, and to help address some of the current knowledge gaps.

Encompassed within the program components and, in accordance with GBA Plus principals, NRCan will also work with its Federal, Provincial, Territorial, and Indigenous (FPTI) counterparts towards open data policies and data standards to ensure that the flood hazard data being produced by the program can be openly distributed following international geospatial data and web standards for all Canadians.

Lower Carbon Transportation

Program Goals: The Lower Carbon Transportation Program enhances the availability, accessibility, and awareness of low carbon transportation options for consumers and key actors in the transportation of passengers and freight on Canadian roads. GBA Plus is incorporated into the applications to collect data as appropriate and through program design to eliminate barriers to access.

Target Population: Clean Fuels Sector/Industry

• Emission Reduction Fund (ERF): All Canadians
• Clean Fuels Fund (CFF): Clean Fuels Sector/Industry
• Green Freight Assessment Program (GFAP): Freight/Trucking Sector, Municipal and Regional Governments – Companies and organizations with fleets comprised of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles
• Electric Vehicle and Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Deployment Initiative (EVAFIDI): All Canadians
• Recapitalization of the Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Program (ZEVIP): All Canadians
• Greening Government Operations Fleet Program (GGO): Federal Departments
• Zero Emission Vehicle Awareness Initiative (ZEVAI): All Canadians
• Clean Fuels Awareness: All Canadians

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Second group: 60 per cent - 79 per cent men
By income level	Third group: No significant distributional impacts
By age group	Second group: No significant inter-generational impacts or impacts generation between youth and seniors

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes:

Canadians with a specific focus on macroeconomic stabilization, government operations, clean environment, public safety, fundamental research, broad economic development, democratic participation, and social well-being

Direct Beneficiaries: Funding recipients, including the medium- and heavy-duty vehicle (MHDV) auto manufacturing sector, fleet operators, and drivers; utilities; non-government organizations; industry associations; electric vehicle equipment manufacturers; academia; research associations; standards organizations; technical experts and tradespeople (e.g. electricians, construction workers, retrofitters); Indigenous and community groups; and provincial, territorial, or municipal governments, their departments, or agencies where applicable.

Many of the benefitting organizations have a male Caucasian majority workforce, given existing gender and ethnic disparity in the automotive industry and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) related industries. Installation of refueling infrastructure will also call on trades that are predominantly male such as construction, electricians, plumbers, and equipment operators.

Indirect Beneficiaries: Existing zero- and lower-emission vehicle owners and drivers, both LDV and MHDV; new ZEV owners; rural, remote, and northern communities; Indigenous peoples; the utilities sector; the automotive industry; and Canadians who have pronounced health benefits from the reduction of air pollution, such as youth, seniors, and individuals with disabilities.

Benefits associated with new ZEV purchases are anticipated to accrue equally across gender, as 48% of passenger vehicles are owned/leased by women and 52% by men. In the medium to longer term, low-carbon fuels offer opportunities to reduce diesel dependency in Canada’s North. This supports broader Government efforts to transition remote communities across Canada off diesel and improving air quality across the country.

Groups that may face barriers to access/participation: Underrepresented groups such as women in utility companies, LDV dealerships, and the MHDV trucking industry, where women make up 28%, 22%, and 3.7% of the workforce respectively; women in Canada’s construction labour force, who represented 13% of the workforce in 2020; and Black Canadians in all sectors of the automotive industry.

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

The below key impact statistics are from external sources which have helped shape and inform the different program streams’ architecture through rigorous GBA Plus analyses conducted throughout program stages.

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Gender distribution in the trucking industry in Canada	3.5% of truck drivers were women in 2021	Trucking HD labour market data, 2022	Below the national workforce average (48%)
New Canadian gender distribution in automotive parts production in Canada	10% were women who had immigrated to Canada	Automotive Industry Labour Market Analysis, 2020 Trend Report	40% of all women employed in this sector are new Canadians
Gender distribution in the energy efficiency workforce in Canada	18% were women in 2018	Environmental Careers Organization of Canada (ECO Canada) “Energy Efficiency Employment in Canada” April 2019 report	Below the national workforce average
Global gender and ethnic diversity of energy sector	Globally in 2020, women account for 32% of the energy sector, while racial & ethnic minorities account for 22%	Diversio, “Equal by 30, Advancing Diversity & Inclusion in the Energy Sector”, July 2021	Women and ethnic minorities underrepresented compared to population
Gender distribution across the energy sector work force	20-25% of the energy sector workforce identified as women	Baruah, 2018	Compared with 40-50% representation economy-wide across the OECD
Indigenous peoples in the energy efficiency workforce in Canada	2% Indigenous peoples in 2018	Environmental Careers Organization of Canada (ECO Canada) “Energy Efficiency Employment in Canada” April 2019 report	Compared to 3% national workforce average
Age demographics in the energy efficiency workforce in Canada	Approximately 58% of energy efficiency workers were 35 or older	Environmental Careers Organization of Canada (ECO Canada) “Energy Efficiency Employment in Canada” April 2019 report	Younger workers between ages 18 and 34 was above the national workforce average of 42% versus 33%
Proportion of young workers (between 18 and 34) in the energy efficiency workforce in Canada	42% in 2018	Budget 2021	Higher than the national workforce average (33%)
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

The Lower Carbon Transportation program supports improved environmental outcomes, including reduced GHG emissions and other harmful environmental contaminants or exposure, and the transition to clean energy and technology, which are directly linked to improved health and economic outcomes for diverse populations of Canadians.

ZEVAI supports projects that aim to increase awareness of, knowledge of, and public confidence in zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) and public charging and refueling infrastructure. The ZEVAI helps fund outreach, education and capacity-building activities, ultimately enabling greater adoption of ZEVs by Canadians in all regions of the country. In addition to funding projects, program activities to promote awareness include presence at auto shows, presentations to stakeholders, dealership training, ZEV outreach and creation of a designated website developed for ZEV education. Clean Fuels Awareness projects supports projects that address awareness and knowledge gaps among Canadians and industry on all clean fuel types and clean fuel technologies across all industries, commercial applications and the general public. As the programs continue, their aforementioned work to address key barriers surrounding the purchase of a ZEV by consumers, including range anxiety, lack of awareness and knowledge, and low confidence in the ability to match internal combustion engine (ICE) performance, more Canadians may choose to switch to a ZEV and will enjoy the fuels savings, lower maintenance costs, and environmental benefits associated with owning one. There are also associated health benefits due to better air quality and noise reduction from the switch to ZEVs as well as increased employment opportunity from new jobs associated with ZEV development (battery manufacturing, recycling and other ZEV technician training). Lower income individuals and organizations, including not-for-profit and Indigenous affiliated organizations have gained more access to funding under the programs as the eligibility requirement is less stringent for these groups and they are also eligible for 50% more funds than for-profit organizations.

The Green Freight Program will provide the opportunity for cost shared fuel-switching (i.e., the purchase of new vehicles) and the repowering of existing vehicles to cleaner fuels. This will increase the number of sales of low-carbon vehicles or re-powered vehicles to fleet owners and operators across Canada and help decarbonize the country’s freight corridors and reduce air pollution.

To date, much of the deployed charging and refueling infrastructure for electric vehicles has been deployed in urban and/or “southern” Canada. Given that many Indigenous peoples live in rural, remote, and northern areas of the country, access to and awareness of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure may be limited. Therefore, awareness and deployment efforts undertaken by the programs prioritize projects directed at rural, remote, and Northern areas of the country as part of the commitment to install charging stations in Canada’s rural areas and potentially increase ownership with associated benefits. There are currently several projects focused on rural, northern, remote and Indigenous community currently being sponsored under Clean Fuels awareness or ZEVAI to raise awareness and education on the benefits for adoption of these clean fuels and ZEVs. These projects engage local communities actively through events, publications and/or direct exposure. There are also funding opportunity specific to Indigenous Led Awareness projects. Likewise, seven Indigenous projects are currently being funded under the ZEVIP.

The automotive industry currently employs a larger percentage of men than women. However, ongoing industrial transformation towards ZEVs could also present the opportunity for a change in the work force, if appropriate measures are taken to employ and promote women both with STEM skills and more generally. Clean Fuels Awareness and ZEVAI award higher points to proponent projects with impact and reach to broader marginalized or equity seeking groups. The rating comprises a significant amount (up to 10%) of the total score for project funding, effectively prioritizing projects that have impact (engagement or outreach, training in this communities), thereby allowing access to funds for the project. There is currently one project being sponsored under ZEVAI to explore the reasons for the gender gap in ZEV ownership and ZEV careers, and to then fill that gap with education and opportunities that will help level the playing field through ZEV surveys, ZEV education, and a ZEV Career Fair.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Baruah, Bipasha PhD., November 2018 page 3, Barriers and Opportunities for Women’s Employment in Natural Resources Industries in Canada, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Women’s Issues, University of Western Ontario.

Statistics Canada, Table: 14-10-0335-02, Proportion of women and men employed in occupations, annual, 2018

Government of Canada, 2020, Hydrogen Strategy for Canada

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

Specialized programs have been designed to boost engagement of communities with low participation. For example: the Indigenous-led awareness and education projects for cleaner transportation and clean fuels pilot is a continuous-intake call for proposals that enables Indigenous communities, businesses, and organizations to access funding for related projects without being confined to application period. This application process allows for greater community engagement and support to applicants. The program also asks if proponents have Workforce Gender and Diversity Plans and promotes workforce diversity by providing funding recipients with information on ways to increase diversity and inclusiveness within their organizations. There are also continuous intake application processes and increased contribution limits for Indigenous proponents. Final funding reports are available. Programs like Clean Fuels Awareness and ZEVAI track awareness through outreach, engagement, training, events, etc. and have now updated program’s key performance indicator requirements to include mandatory reporting of number of individuals and organizations in attendance for events, fraction of underrepresented groups engaged, number of individuals trained, etc among others key performance indicators. These data would be available for progress monitoring in subsequent years.

Sustainable Forest Management

Program Goals: The Enhancing Sustainable Forest Management Practices (SFM) program goal is to support and carry out forest research that fills priority knowledge gaps about the dynamics of forest ecosystems and contributes data and knowledge to monitor and understand the impacts of natural disturbances and forest management. This program ensures timely and accurate data and information sharing at international, national, and regional levels; and informs the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of forest management practices. The SFM Program continues to fund some research in collaboration with Indigenous communities on forest ecosystems. The SFM program is incorporating some GBA Plus data collection into research proposals and reporting. The SFM program has applied GBA Plus to support projects that are advancing engagement and collaboration with Indigenous communities.

Target Population: All Canadians

Distribution of Benefits

End users of the knowledge and tools developed through this program represent a diverse group of Canadians. Currently, data on population demographics is not collected for this program to determine distribution of benefits.

	Group
By gender	Not Available
By income level	Not Available
By age group	Not Available

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes: The SFM program is intended to have a positive impact (directly and indirectly) for all Canadians and contribute to the long-term resiliency of forest-based, rural, and remote communities, including many Indigenous communities. Indigenous contributions are integral for the continued improvement of sustainable forest management practices to protect the socio-economic and cultural value of forests, and its biodiversity.

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Percentage of projects funded through the Sustainable Forest Management Program that have direct and established partnerships with Indigenous communities	In 2022-23, 18% of sustainable forest management projects had active and direct engagement with Indigenous partners.	Program Reporting Data	7/38 projects from 2022-23 listed Indigenous partners.
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

The Sustainable Forest Management Program informs the development and continuous improvement of forest management practices across the country, and provides accessible and accurate forest data for international, national, and regional audiences.

The Sustainable Forest Management Program funded several projects that collaborated with Indigenous groups on research activities or knowledge sharing. In addition, SFM program managers and researchers, are advancing ways to engage with Indigenous partners and communities though the development of a new NRCan Policy on Ethics for Research Involving Indigenous Peoples and Territories.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

The SFM program has been working with program administration on a mechanism to collect GBA Plus information in project proposals and reporting. Researchers were asked, for the upcoming 2023-24 fiscal year, how GBA plus considerations will be included in research design. Based on responses, this question may be refined in future years.

Core Responsibility: Globally Competitive Natural Resource Sectors

Energy Safety and Security, and Petroleum Resources

Program Goals: The program aims to ensure informed decision-making that promotes the safe, secure, and sustainable production and transportation of conventional and alternative fuels needed in the context of a clean energy transition, and to ensure Indigenous participation in the decision-making processes.

Target Population: Indigenous peoples, communities, governments, Tribal Councils, National and regional Indigenous councils, and tribal organizations, and Indigenous for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Not Available
By income level	Not Available
By age group	Not Available

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes: Indigenous peoples, communities, governments, Tribal Councils, National and regional Indigenous councils, and tribal organizations, and Indigenous for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

The program provides contribution funding to Indigenous communities and organizations to participate in engagement for legislative and regulatory development and implementation under the Canadian Energy Regulator Act.

The objective is to ensure informed Indigenous participation in decision-making that promotes the safe, secure, and sustainable production and transportation of petroleum resources.

Key activities include providing advice on the legislative and regulatory frameworks for federally regulated pipelines.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

The program collects data exclusively for Indigenous community and organization participation, based on its specific Terms and Conditions. Given that the funding did sunset on March 31, 2021, and due to its current authorities, there are no actions currently underway or planned to enable further data collection, monitoring, or reporting of impacts based on gender and diversity.

Forest Sector Competitiveness

Program Goals:

Indigenous Forestry Initiative (IFI):

The purpose of the IFI is to support Indigenous economic development opportunities that contribute to a more environmentally and commercially sustainable natural resource sector. IFI recipients self-identify as Indigenous peoples.

Investments in Forestry Industry Transformation (IFIT) Program:

IFIT aims to support the forest sector’s transformation by investing in innovative technologies and processes that lead to new low-carbon bioproducts, including bioenergy, biomaterials, biochemicals, and green building materials. Since 2020, the IFIT program requires its recipients to submit diversity and inclusion (D&I) plans and to fill in D&I questionnaires, which are used to collect information on each organization’s diversity-related measures and forest sector demographics in order to evaluate workforce diversity and D&I performance in the forest sector. This effort has allowed for the collection of quality data and has also increased general awareness about diversity in the Forest Sector. The data will be further analysed by the end of this program renewal cycle to try to identify meaningful trends and progress.

Target Population:

Indigenous Forestry Initiative: Indigenous groups seeking to participate in the Forest Sector

Investments in Forest Industry Transformation Program: firms of all sizes that operate within Canada's forest sector.

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Second group: 60 per cent - 79 per cent men
By income level	First group: Strongly benefits low-income individuals (Strongly progressive)
By age group	Second group: No significant inter-generational impacts or impacts generation between youth and seniors

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes:

Indigenous Forestry Initiative (IFI):

Indigenous groups seeking to participate in the forest sector, along with associated Indigenous communities and community members.

Investments in Forest Industry Transformations (IFIT) Program:

Forest sector companies and their employees are the main recipients of IFIT funding. According to the 2016 Census of the Population, the demographic groups expected to directly benefit from the program are men, Indigenous Peoples, rural or remote communities, and lower-educated individuals.

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Number of IFI Projects where women participated	3 (60%)	Program Reporting Data
Total number of women participating in IFI projects	11	Program Reporting Data
Number women led IFI Projects	2 (40%)	Program Reporting Data
Number of IFI Projects where Indigenous People participated	5 (100%)	Program Reporting Data
Total number of Indigenous participants in IFI	42	Program Reporting Data
Number of IFI Projects where youth participated	3 (60%)	Program Reporting Data
Number of Youth participants in IFI	At least 4	Program Reporting Data
*2021-22 metrics (last full reporting year) Note: Reported IFI numbers are against a total number of 5 projects funded.

Other Key Program impacts:

Investments in Forest Industry Transformation (IFIT) Program:

The IFIT program is intended to help de-risk innovation and support the development of forest sector technologies and products at the pre-commercialization phase, which is crucial to ensure its successful transformation. There is a strong opportunity to valorize wood pulp and develop new, environmentally friendly products and processes while providing green jobs, including for a sizeable Indigenous workforce.

The NRCan 2021 Economic Vulnerability Index indicates that there are 300 communities in Canada, most rural, that depend on the forest sector as an essential source of jobs and income. These communities, along with all others in which the forest sector generates jobs, need a resilient and sustainable forest sector to maintain socio-economic well-being. The IFIT program has continued to support these communities and foster regional economic development, including for Indigenous recipients, who are eligible for full government assistance for project costs (including a maximum of 50% from IFIT).

Indigenous Forestry Initiative (IFI):

Indigenous communities frequently do not have the same access to tenure and face systemic barriers to education and skills training that creates capacity challenges for businesses and decreases the ability to participate in forest management decision making. It can be difficult for Indigenous communities, organizations, and businesses to access funding from traditional financing institutions given the high cost, longer payback periods, and the perceived risk of both the project proponent and the project itself. Policy, legal, and legislative barriers can also prevent them from accessing financing through traditional financing mechanisms such as debt financing.

The IFI is designed to support a strong and resilient Indigenous forest sector by addressing systemic barriers like those described above.

Additional efforts were made to advance the full and equal participation of Indigenous communities in the forest sector by addressing unintended systemic barriers associated with the program itself. For example, with the support of GBA Plus analysis, the program identified that capacity issues in Indigenous communities can present a challenge in applying to the IFI program. In light of these challenges, Regional Liaison Officers (RLOs) located in Canadian Forest Service regional offices across the country now help to address some of these issues by acting as a point of contact and source of guidance for potential applicants.

The IFI also implemented an Expert Review Panel model to review projects and provide short-list recommendations to the program. It is the intent of the program to develop review panels that are majority Indigenous and gender balanced as an added mechanism to help mitigate and avoid unintended risks of systemic barriers associated with implicit or unconscious bias, and/or lack of cultural understanding. An Advisory Review of the IFI conducted in 2022-23 confirmed that Indigenous involvement on the Expert Review Panel was an important feature and enhanced the certainty of decisions being made.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

Collectively, the Forest Sector Competitiveness programs committed to collecting greater gender and diversity information from its proponents or program beneficiaries to monitor program impacts by gender and diversity.

CFS-TEIB created a Diversity Working Group (DWG) to support the sector in identifying measures that could contribute to addressing gender and other representation gaps in the forest sector. The DWG’s main objective was to ensure a better understanding of workforce diversity in the forest sector so that recommendations for program measures would be evidence-based, impactful, and align with other initiatives and actions.

The DWG proposed four measures to help the forest sector improve its understanding and outcomes with regard to workforce diversity, such as: actively collecting better data; requiring program recipients to have a Workforce Gender and Diversity Plan; support efforts towards addressing education as a systemic barrier; and promoting workforce diversity through collaboration.

Programs have since been requiring proponents to develop a workforce diversity plan. For example, from 2021-22 to 2022-23, the Expanding Market Opportunities program requested applicants to submit a Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Plan as part of their funding submissions. This process has been evolving since implemented. For the 2021-22 call-for-proposals, D&I plans were optional, no template was provided, and submitted plans were awarded 5% of the evaluation score. As a result, 90% of applicants included a plan with their proposal submission package. For the 2022-23 call-for-proposals, D&I plans were mandatory, a sample template was provided, and submitted plans were now evaluated. After the 2022-23 call-for-proposals, the D&I plan process was evaluated, and further recommendations were made to improve the process.

IFIT requires every funding proponent to submit both a diversity and inclusion (D&I) plan and fill in a D&I questionnaire, which are used to collect information on each organization’s diversity-related measures and workforce demographics, respectively. IFIT continues to use these tools to better understand forest sector D&I performance and potential impacts on different groups and will monitor this data over time for program reporting and planning purposes.

The IFI tracks data on gender and diversity (i.e., women, youth, elders) to meet diversity commitments, including for representation on the IFI Expert Review Panel. It also encourages RLOs to engage diverse groups within communities (e.g., youth, elders); and HR processes prioritize diversity hiring for the IFI/RLO team. Finally, IFI applicants are asked to submit Diversity Plans or commitments with their applications.

It is important to note, that with respect to the Indigenous government sovereignty in policy and law-making, the IFI does not require a diversity workplan from its Indigenous Government proponents. Data and information collected to support this work and recommendations will enable the broader forest sector competitiveness program to measure future results regarding the status of gender equity and diversity in the forest sector.

Natural Resources Canada’s Indigenous Partnerships Office

Program Goals: This program enables NRCan to advance meaningful partnerships, engagement, and support for Indigenous peoples to participate in the natural resource sectors and help ensure that Indigenous people are equal partners and beneficiaries of Canada’s transition to a net-zero economy.

Target Population: Indigenous peoples

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Second group: 60 per cent - 79 per cent men
By income level	Second group: Somewhat benefits low-income individuals (Somewhat progressive)
By age group	Second group: No significant inter-generational impacts or impacts generation between youth and seniors

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes: Indigenous communities, in particular those Indigenous communities affected or implicated by natural resource projects.

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

NRCan co-chairs the two Indigenous Advisory and Monitoring Committees (IAMCs) for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project and existing pipeline (IAMC-TMX), and the Enbridge and Line 3 Pipeline Replacement Project (IAMC-L3). The work of the IAMCs lead federal efforts to meaningfully involve Indigenous communities in the monitoring and oversight of linear resource projects. The Secretariats for both Committees identify and track priorities, issues, actions, and advice addressed by the Committees that may have differential impacts based on gender or diversity factors (e.g., age, geography, culture, and other identities).

The Socioeconomic Subcommittee of the Indigenous Advisory and Monitoring Committee for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project and Existing Pipeline (IAMC-TMX) looks closely at the gendered impacts of the Project as experienced by Indigenous communities, as well as how GBA Plus can support communities as an analytical tool in the early identification, mitigation, and monitoring of risks and benefits. In 2022-23, the Socioeconomic Subcommittee:

• Identified key issues and priorities in relation to the socioeconomic effects of major resource projects on Indigenous communities, such as those related to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls which include safe access to traditional harvesting and hunting sites, rental costs and rental availability, and Indigenous worker safety when far from their home community; and,
• Co-developed three regional initiatives designed to strengthen Indigenous monitoring and management of socioeconomic, cultural, health, and well-being risks associated with work camps and initiated work to explore how IAMC-TMX can continue offer sound advice and recommendations based on data and experience researching the socioeconomic effects associated with the TMX expansion project.

The Indigenous Natural Resource Partnerships (INRP) program increases the participation of Indigenous communities and organizations in natural resource projects in Canada and through its active encouragement of participation of underrepresented groups, including Indigenous women, the INRP further aims to support a more gender-balanced natural resource sector. The INRP program also includes a preferential assessment criteria for funding to support the increased participation of underrepresented groups, including Indigenous women.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

The INRP Program collects Indigenous distinctions-based data on communities and organizations receiving funding through its application and project reporting processes throughout the year to measure engagement and access to financial resources. In some cases, the number of participants benefiting from an initiative may be ascertained. Data collected through the application helps to inform program guidelines along with broader policy and investment decisions moving forward.

Provision of Federal Leadership in the Minerals and Metals Sector

Program Goals: The Program ensures that Canada’s minerals sector is innovative, sustainable, and globally competitive. Its work helps to provide governments, industry, and communities – including Indigenous peoples – with the knowledge they need to make informed, evidence-based policy decisions. Both the Canadian Minerals and Metals Plan (CMMP) and the Canadian Critical Minerals Strategy (CCMS) are working to advance the participation of women, Indigenous Peoples, immigrants, and other diverse populations in the mining sector.

Target Population: All Canadians

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Not Available
By income level	Not Available
By age group	Not Available

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes: Women, Indigenous Women, Indigenous Peoples, Immigrants, Youth

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

Through extensive consultation, including with provinces and territories, Indigenous groups, and industry, NRCan launched the Canadian Critical Minerals Strategy (CCMS) in December 2022. This builds on existing work undertaken in the sector, including the development and implementation of the Canadian Minerals and Metals Plan (CMMP), aiming to make Canada the world’s leading mining nation. The Plan set an aspirational target of 30% women in the mining sector by 2030, compared to 17.3% in 2022. This is an upward trend, as the 2022 participation rate of women is greater than or equal to the average of the preceding five years. The CMMP is also supporting several initiatives to help mobilize a more diverse and inclusive exploration and mining sector to achieve this target.

Both the CCMS and the CMMP are working to identify strategies to increase the number of youth, visible minorities, new immigrants, and underrepresented groups in the mining sector and advance Indigenous participation, particularly that of Indigenous women. Specifically, the CMMP has been and will continue to work collaboratively with its partners to deliver initiatives to help meet these goals. These initiatives include:

• To support mineral literacy:
  • In 2022, creating a Mineral Literacy Hub with information on the diverse careers in the sector; which was published on MinesCanada.ca; and
  • From 2021 to 2023, working with the Mining Industry Human Resources Council on a National Career Ambassador Program to engage with mining stakeholders and promote mining careers for youth across Canada.
• To support workforce diversity:
  • In 2023, developing a “Canadians of Mining” campaign to highlight career opportunities to help create a more diverse and equitable workforce with the first profiles aiming to go out in 2024;
  • In 2022, creating an FPT Working Group on Workforce for the Future to launch pan-Canadian initiatives to foster a pipeline of talent with more women and diverse populations; and
  • In 2022-23, collaborating with NVision—an Indigenous-owned consultancy—on a research paper on strategies to overcome barriers to the participation of Indigenous women, which will be released in Fall 2023 and will be used to help inform work focused on advancing the participation of Indigenous women.
• To advance the participation of Indigenous Peoples:
  • In 2022-23, supporting the Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers (Cando) with its Annual Conference and Youth Program to raise awareness of mining and encourage greater participation;
  • In 2022-23, collaborating with Cando on mining webinars for Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador for economic development officers, land managers and community leaders for all jurisdictions to highlight the opportunities that mining could bring to their communities (since the project began in 2021, webinars have been completed for BC, AB, SK, MB, QC, MB, NS and NL with work to begin on ON and the Territories in the next fiscal year—all webinars can be found at edo.ca/edo-tools/mining-development-tools); and
  • From 2021 to present, collaborating with Mining Shared Value on a local procurement checklist to support Indigenous procurement and greater participation in the mining supply and services sector, which will be released at PDAC 2024.

Supplementary Information Sources:

The Canadian Critical Minerals Strategy

The Canadian Minerals and Metals Plan

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

Grant recipients were asked to report on their outcomes as related to what was included in the original grant agreements. Following the 2022-23 FY, all grant recipients had met their anticipated main outcomes, like those involving outreach to youth and Indigenous peoples through the initiatives mentioned above.

Many of our initiatives are being delivered by outside partners. NRCan will review the deliverables when completed and meet with the project proponents on what data was collected through their activities (e.g., measuring the number of youth engaged, the number of Indigenous Peoples engaged, etc.). The results will help inform future program design/implementation to improve the impact of our grants and initiatives.

Youth Employment and Skills Strategy - Science and Technology Internship Program (Green Jobs)

Program Goals: STIP – Green Jobs provides funding to employers across Canada to hire, train, and mentor youth (aged 15 – 30) in the natural resources sector. The program works to increase the participation of youth who experience barriers to employment and create quality and inclusive work experiences.

Target Population: The program targets youth in Canada aged 15 to 30, including equity-deserving groups, to create quality work experiences and launch careers in the natural resources sector.

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Third group: Broadly gender-balanced
By income level	Second group: Somewhat benefits low-income individuals (Somewhat progressive)
By age group	Second group: No significant inter-generational impacts or impacts generation between youth and seniors

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes:

Key Populations:

1. Employers in the natural resources sector
2. Youth aged 15 to 30 (inclusive)
3. Youth from employment equity groups and those who experience barriers to employment, including:
   • Indigenous youth
   • Youth living with disabilities
   • Visible minorities
   • Women
   • Youth from northern, rural, and remote communities

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Number of youth (ages 15-30) served	594	Reporting by Delivery Organizations	Disaggregated data source omitted for privacy consideration.
Percentage of youth employed/self-employed following a placement	74%*	Reporting by Delivery Organizations	Disaggregated data source omitted for privacy consideration.
Percentage of youth who returned to school following a placement	12%*	Reporting by Delivery Organizations	Disaggregated data source omitted for privacy consideration.
* Preliminary results based on data received at time of reporting.

Other Key Program impacts:

Using a further distribution of funds model, the Program supports youth placements through non-repayable contribution agreements. Initial recipient organizations deliver funding to employers.

STIP – Green Jobs applies a GBA Plus and IDEA lens to every aspect of the program and is continually improving access based on feedback from youth, employers, and delivery organizations. In 2022-23:

• The program exceeded its ambitious target of 60% participation by employment equity, achieving a 79% EE participation rate, including youth who were 47% women, 26% racialized, 34% Indigenous, and 8% living with disabilities.
• Launched an inclusive Call for Proposals, which allowed smaller and more regionally and Indigenous-focused organizations to apply. Two new Indigenous delivery organizations were selected.

From 2018-2019 to 2022-2023, the program conducted engagement with Indigenous youth and youth living in northern and remote communities to better understand their experiences. The program has addressed barriers identified during engagement sessions through the following:

• Removed the post-secondary education requirement;
• Increased wage subsidies for youth in northern, rural, and remote communities to account for the higher cost of living; and,
• Added training to support youth without formal post-secondary education to apply for internships.

These actions have contributed to increased labour market opportunities and participation for diverse groups. For example, in the last four fiscal years, there has been:

• An increase in the participation of Indigenous youth from 5% in 2018-19 to 34% in 2022-23, and 79% participation from Employment Equity groups in 2022-23;
• An average of over 80% full-time placement after internships;
• Participation in all three Territories; and,
• Partnerships with two Indigenous-led and focused delivery organizations serving majority Indigenous youth.

The Program remains committed to finding solutions to respond to the age barrier (required by the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy) by working to identify opportunities to address the gap for those over 30 years old.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

STIP – Green Jobs collects disaggregated participant data annually through the Participant Information Form (PIF) and the exit-survey (completed at the end of the placement). Self-identification is not mandatory, only information to determine eligibility is required (e.g., name, age, and legal status in Canada). STIP invites video testimonials from youth and employers, and asks delivery organizations to share feedback in final reports, consultations with NRCan, and roundtables with senior management. The program collects data on the following indicators:

• number of youth (ages 15-30) served;
• where youth live;
• where placements are located;
• employment equity group (i.e., women, Indigenous Peoples, visible minorities, persons with disabilities);
• official language spoken;
• percentage of youth who were hired on full-time basis with employer or in natural resources after their placement or outside of the natural resources sector; and
• percentage of youth who returned to school.

For each of these indicators, data is disaggregated by gender, including an option that permits interns to ‘not identify’ their gender. This enables the program to undertake an analysis based on age, location, employment status, employment equity group, and gender.

With the exception of women, the percentage of participants served by the program in each equity group exceeds the percentage of these groups in the overall population according to the 2021 census data.

Statutory Atlantic Offshore Payments

Program Goals: This program fulfills legislated obligations under the Accord Act to transfer revenues collected from offshore oil and gas to the provinces of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador and to fund the offshore boards.

Target Population: Provinces of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board and the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board.

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Not Available
By income level	Not Available
By age group	Not Available

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes: Not Available

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

Pursuant to the Accord Acts, this program involves making payments to the provinces of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador equivalent to the revenue amounts received by Canada in relation to offshore oil and gas activities in the Canada-Nova Scotia and Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador offshore areas. It also involves paying 50% of the annual operating costs of the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board and the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board.

Under the offshore Accords with Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador, the provinces are the principal beneficiaries of offshore oil and gas resources, which are a source of important economic benefits. NRCan acts as a flow-through for these revenues and is not responsible for determining how these funds are utilized within the provincial fiscal framework.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

The program does not collect GBA Plus data related to how the provinces use these revenues. Given the program’s limited scope, there are currently no actions being taken to enable future monitoring or reporting of the Statutory Atlantic Offshore Program’s impacts as they relate to gender and diversity.

Resource Partnership Sector

Program Goals: On March 29, 2022, Natural Resources Canada changed the name of the Indigenous Affairs and Reconciliation and Major Projects Management (IARS-MPMO) Sector to [No-kway-washk], one of several Algonquin words for sweetgrass. Nòkwewashk will help to streamline engagements and relationship-building processes to take an NRCan-wide approach to supporting meaningful Indigenous participation in the natural resource economy and the net zero transition; provide expertise on Indigenous engagement, program delivery, and policy; and will bring together Indigenous partners, provinces, territories, and industry to more efficiently navigate regulatory and development processes.

Target Population: All Canadians

Distribution of Benefits

	Group
By gender	Not Available
By income level	Not Available
By age group	Not Available

Specific Demographic Group Outcomes: Indigenous communities, in particular those Indigenous communities affected or implicated by natural resources development projects.

Key Program impacts* on Gender and diversity:

Key Program Impacts Statistics:

Statistics	Observed Results*	Data Source	Comment
Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
* 2022-23 or most recent

Other Key Program impacts:

The Resource Partnership Sector (RPS) applies a GBA Plus lens to policy analysis, project tracking and solutions, including monitoring GBA Plus issues encountered in natural resource projects, such as Indigenous participation and underrepresentation of women in the natural resource sectors.

Project tracking and coordination informs work on horizontal policy and helps identify solutions to emerging issues with respect to natural resource projects, including relevant GBA Plus data. NRCan will continue to support the engagement of Indigenous communities through a distinction-based approach, which will tailor engagement based on each community’s capacity, concerns, and interests. This approach will continue to support ongoing Indigenous engagement on the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) Project and improve opportunities for Indigenous communities to benefit from TMX-related initiatives, including through the Government of Canada’s 8 accommodation measures and the CER’s 16 Recommendations. When coordinating Indigenous engagement and consultation on natural resource projects, NRCan’s approach will also consider diversity factors, including appropriate Indigenous economic participation and benefit, to help reduce barriers against underrepresented groups.

Measures to improve and streamline grants and contribution (G&C) funding delivery to Indigenous groups have been implemented, including consolidated proposal forms; flexible payment approaches; reduced demands on communities; and streamlined reporting requirements.

Supplementary Information Sources:

Not Available

GBA Plus Data Collection Plan:

Separate GBA Plus assessments are conducted for each individual resource project covered under the Impact Assessment Act through the regulatory review process. Further GBA Plus data, in addition to the assessments already conducted through the regulatory review process, will be collected by NRCan when necessary. GBA Plus information is collected through quantitative data on participant funding agreements. This distinctions-based data includes the number of Indigenous communities or individual participants that have benefitted from program initiatives and is aimed at enhancing Indigenous participation in the natural resource sectors and helps to inform policy and investment decisions moving forward.

The RPS program will further explore measures to improve the collection of disaggregated data in an effort to reveal deprivations and inequalities that may not be fully reflected in aggregate data, while still respecting the intellectually property provisions of Indigenous communities and data sovereignty. In doing so, the RPS program will continue to support the Government of Canada’s distinctions-based approach to its federal policy and decision making focusing on the three federally recognized Indigenous groups in Canada: First Nations, Métis, and Inuit.

Definitions

Target Population : See Finance Canada definition of Target Group in the User Instructions for the GBA Plus Departmental Summary)

Gender Scale:

• First group: Predominantly men (e.g., 80 per cent or more men)
• Second group: 60 per cent - 79 per cent men
• Third group: Broadly gender-balanced
• Fourth group: 60 per cent - 79 per cent women
• Fifth group: Predominantly women (e.g., 80 per cent or more women)

Income Level Scale:

• First group: Strongly benefits low-income individuals (Strongly progressive)
• Second group: Somewhat benefits low-income individuals (Somewhat progressive)
• Third group: No significant distributional impacts
• Fourth group: Somewhat benefits high income individuals (Somewhat regressive)
• Fifth group: Strongly benefits high income individuals (Strongly regressive)

Age Group Scale:

• First group: Primarily benefits youth, children and/or future generations
• Second group: No significant inter-generational impacts or impacts generation between youth and seniors
• Third group: Primarily benefits seniors or the baby boom generation