Gender-based analysis plus

Section 1: Institutional GBA+ Capacity

Key actions taken to advance the implementation of GBA+ governance within the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and to build institutional GBA+ capacity are the continuation of the agency’s involvement in equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) through the new Executive Coordination Committee on EDI (created in 2020–21) and the Working Group on EDI (re-mandated in 2020–21).

The Executive Coordination Committee on EDI is the principal mechanism to guide SSHRC’s implementation of the Tri-agency EDI Action Plan, endorse a SSHRC EDI Implementation Plan, and ensure alignment between external-facing and internal-facing GBA+ and EDI initiatives. The committee is composed of seven SSHRC associate vice-presidents, executive directors and directors (or equivalent), representing SSHRC’s four directorates.

SSHRC reconvened its Working Group on EDI to support and implement SSHRC-specific activities in accordance with the Tri-agency EDI Action Plan and SSHRC EDI Implementation Plan, ensuring effective intra- and cross-divisional/directorate communication and coordination. The working group has one or more representatives from each SSHRC division/directorate.

In addition to these groups, GBA+ departmental capacity was advanced through information and resources available on a new intranet page for staff (updated in the fourth quarter of 2020–21), implementation of a revised version of a self-identification questionnaire launched in 2018 for funding applicants and merit reviewers, and an annual update to SSHRC’s EDI dashboard. The questionnaire and dashboard are important sources of administrative data on the participation of underrepresented groups in SSHRC’s funding programs.

SSHRC also continued to implement mandatory training for all staff: Introduction to GBA+; Diversity and Inclusion; and Civility and Respect. Bias in Peer Review is mandatory training for program delivery staff. Staff members who handle self-identification data must take the Introduction to Security Awareness course and the Equity, Diversity and Inclusive Data and Privacy Protection course. In addition, new mandatory courses on workplace harassment and violence prevention began in 2021–22. Recent training completion rates for staff, including the target deadlines set when the courses were first introduced, are as follows:

SSHRC administers some programs on behalf of the tri-agencies—the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and SSHRC—through the Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS). Key actions taken by TIPS to advance its EDI objectives are to continue to implement and monitor the requirements of the 2019 Addendum to the 2006 Canadian Human Rights Settlement Agreement (a federal court order) for the Canada Research Chairs Program. This work includes requiring participating institutions to set equity targets principally based on Canada’s population within their allocation of chairs (50.9% women, 7.5% persons with disabilities, 4.9% Indigenous peoples and 22% members of racialized minorities), which will need to be met by 2029. It also involves requiring institutions to implement their own EDI action plans for the program.

TIPS provides equity training for all members of its tri-agency executive management governance committees and implements action plans related to EDI objectives from the management responses to the program evaluations for the Canada Excellence Research Chairs, Canada 150 Research Chairs and Canada First Research Excellence Fund.

Section 2: Gender and Diversity Impacts, by Program

Terms used in this section are listed in the Definitions.

Core Responsibility: Funding Social Sciences and Humanities Research and Training

Core Responsibility: Institutional support for the indirect costs of research

Section 3: Program Links to Gender Results Framework

Core Responsibility: Funding Social Sciences and Humanities Research and Training

Core Responsibility: Institutional support for the indirect costs of research

Section 4: Program Links to Quality of Life Framework

Core Responsibility: Funding Social Sciences and Humanities Research and Training

Core Responsibility: Institutional support for the indirect costs of research

Definitions

Target Population:

See Finance Canada definition of Target Group in the following document: User Instructions for the GBA+ Departmental Summary – Budget 2020 – (Canada.ca)

Gender Scale:

• First group: Predominantly men (e.g., 80% or more men)
• Second group: 60%-79% men
• Third group: Broadly gender-balanced
• Forth group: 60%-79% women
• Fifth group: Predominantly women (e.g., 80% 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
• Forth 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 intergenerational impacts or impacts generation between youth and seniors
• Third group: Primarily benefits seniors or the baby boom generation

Gender Results Framework Pillars:

See definitions at the following page: Gender Results Framework (Women and Gender Equality Canada)

Quality of Life Domains:

See definitions in Annex-5-eng.pdf (budget.gc.ca)

Date modified:

2022-02-01