Office of the Auditor General of Canada2022–23 Departmental Plan
Supplementary information table
Gender-based analysis plus
Introduction
Each organization is responsible for conducting its own analysis, under the gender-based analysis plus (GBA Plus) framework, to support this government-wide reporting requirement.
In 2018, Parliament passed the Canadian Gender Budgeting Act. The departmental plans and departmental results reports are being used to fulfill the President of the Treasury Board’s obligations to make public analysis on the effects of expenditure programs on gender and diversity.
Applicability
All departments must complete the GBA Plus supplementary information table. Even if GBA Plus is deemed not relevant to a department’s programs, the department must complete the table and explain how GBA Plus is not relevant.
General information
Institutional GBA+ capacity
The Office of the Auditor General of Canada (OAG) is committed to ensuring that GBA Plus considerations are integrated into our financial and performance audit work, so that we can provide elected officials and all Canadians objective information on the government's progress on its equity, diversity, and inclusion priority. This work is supported by a refined audit methodology and increased awareness and knowledge of our audit professionals. Diversity and inclusion are at the heart of who we are and what we do, across the office from both an audit product perspective and an internal operations perspective.
An executive-level employee was selected to act as Executive Sponsor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and as Champion of Sustainable Development Goals and GBA Plus. The Executive Sponsor ensures that the Sustainable Development Goals and GBA Plus are factored into the OAG’s work and acts as a liaison to the Executive Committee on matters related to diversity and inclusion.
Planned activities to support the advancement of Canada’s GBA Plus commitments are as follows:
- In all of its audit work, the OAG is committed to examining how government departments are implementing GBA Plus requirements. A team within the OAG provides technical advice to audit teams. This team is working to develop training, guidance, and tools to build capacity and ensure that all audit products produced by the OAG consider a GBA Plus lens.
The following major initiatives are underway to support equity, diversity, and inclusion within the OAG:
- Recognizing the importance of equity and diversity in creating an inclusive workplace in achieving our vision and mission, the OAG will develop an equity, diversity, and inclusion strategy. The scope and focus of the strategy will be
- leadership accountability
- data-informed decision making
- education and awareness
- identification and reduction of barriers to increase diversity and inclusion
- Strengthening leadership accountability, the executive team members will commit to concrete actions on diversity and inclusion by signing the anti-racism and discrimination statement.
- Increasing awareness and education, the OAG curriculum for training courses for our employees was modified to incorporate elements on diversity, employment equity, GBA Plus, Indigenous issues, creating a respectful workplace, understanding and overcoming unconscious bias, and workplace accommodations.
- Identifying and reducing barriers, the OAG policies are being reviewed to ensure that they reflect diversity and inclusion and GBA Plus perspectives.
- Increasing diversity and inclusion, a number of actions are being taken related to staffing and participation in professional development programs.
Highlights of GBA+ results reporting capacity by program
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Legislative auditing |
Our audit reports benefit Canadians of all backgrounds. A number of our performance audit reports have directly and indirectly examined how the government considers GBA Plus in the design, development, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of programs, policies, and initiatives. This includes various identity factors that intersect to make us who we are, such as sex, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, age, and mental or physical disability. The recommendations from those reports can lead to better outcomes for Canadian women, men, and gender-diverse people of all demographics and backgrounds. This program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor or report program effects by gender and diversity (GBA Plus). The following actions are being taken to enable future monitoring or reporting of the program’s effects by gender and diversity:
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