Gender-based analysis plus
Institutional GBA+ capacity
CIRNAC has named an executive level Champion for Gender Inclusive Services and an executive level Diversity and Inclusion Champion whose roles include support for the application of GBA+. Champions advocate and support the integration of gender and diversity considerations in service design and delivery across the department. In addition, a GBA+ Centre of Expertise was established. It includes development of a CIRNAC culturally-competent GBA+ Implementation Strategy, modernizing the GBA+ policy, and establishing and coordinating a CIRNAC GBA+ Network. This Network of approximately 50 employees for the dissemination of best practices and information sharing includes voluntary sectoral GBA+ representatives that serve as subject matter experts.
The GBA+ Centre of Expertise establishes relationships with Indigenous women’s organizations, and consults with Women and Gender Equality Canada and ISC to ensure the integration of culturally competent GBA+ into departmental decision-making processes.
CIRNAC coordinated and promoted a series of learning activities to increase GBA+ and cultural competency awareness including: GBA+ awareness week events; GBA+ training challenge; coffee chats; Fed Talks; presentations from Indigenous women’s organizations; Women and Gender Equality Canada’s GBA+ training platform; and the Canada School of Public Service’s Indigenous Learning Series.
Highlights of GBA+ Results by Program
| Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) | One of the major initiatives where GBA+ has been applied and monitored in 2019–20 included the development towards a National Action Plan to respond to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls’ Final Report: Reclaiming Power and Place. This initiative is a priority for the Government of Canada and aligns to the Gender-Based Violence and Access to Justice objective of the Gender Results Framework. CIRNAC supported national and regional Indigenous organizations, including Indigenous women and Two-Spirit and LGBTQQIA organizations to engage their communities to identify priorities and best practices to advance development of the National Action Plan. CIRNAC plans to develop and implement the National Action Plan with provinces, territories, national, regional and Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQQIA organizations. This will include short, medium and long-term evaluation criteria that are reflective of GBA+ considerations to be drafted in partnership with Indigenous organizations. |
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| Consultation and Policy Development | GBA+ was identified as a priority area within the Native Women’s Association of Canada’s Accord and Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada’s MOU. Planning discussions were held to advance work in identifying performance measures and ensure that Indigenous women’s voices are included in the broader whole-of-government process towards reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. Support was provided to Indigenous women’s organizations to help develop culturally-competent GBA+ frameworks, and advocate for institutional and systemic changes over the long term. The 3-year pilot program with Canadian Roots Exchange supports an intersectionality approach to ensuring core activities are designed under the premise of reaching broad segments of the Indigenous youth population with a particular focus on marginalized and 2SLGBTQ+ Indigenous youth. The fundamental premise of this approach is to specifically look for ways to include intersections of diversity applicable to youth in a variety of outreach activities, including performance measurement, and to better guide the process of policy and program co-development in a manner that is both inclusive and accessible, as well as participatory for all Indigenous youth. This approach honors and ensures that diverse youth perspectives are included in the whole of society responsibility in advancing reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. |
| Federal Interlocutor's Contribution Program | CIRNAC engaged Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak (LFMO) – Women of the Métis Nation to ensure the perspectives of Métis Nation women were included in the whole-of-government process towards reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. Exploratory discussions were held to advance formalization of this relationship with Canada. The department supported LFMO in the development of a Métis specific GBA+ Toolkit, published in 2019. |