Gender-based Analysis Plus resources

Toolkits & Guides

• Guide: Integrating GBA Plus into public and digital engagement

Created in collaboration with the Treasury Board Secretariat’s Open Government Unit, this Guide is intended to advance Open Government principles alongside the implementation of GBA Plus. By supporting approaches that lead to more meaningful and inclusive engagement, diverse people and those traditionally less heard can participate in the process of informing government actions.

• Inclusive event planning job aid
• Unconscious bias: Additional resources
• GBA Plus do-it-yourself training toolkit
• Introduction to GBA Plus Online course: Bibliography
• GBA Plus research guide
• GBA Plus research checklist
• Guidance for drafters of Treasury Board submissions

Departmental Action Plans on GBA Plus

• Management Response and Action Plan (MRAP) to the recommendations of the Office of the Auditor General Performance Audit of Gender-Based Analysis Plus of the Spring 2022 Reports of the Auditor General of Canada (Prepared by the Privy Council Office, Treasury Board Secretariat, and Women and Gender Equality Canada)
• Departmental Action Plan on Gender-based Analysis (2016-2020)
• Departmental Action Plan on Gender-based Analysis (2008-2009)

Parliamentary reports and government responses related to GBA Plus

• Standing Committee on Public Accounts (PAC) reports and government responses
  • Interim Progress Report on the Implementation of the Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) Action Plan (2017)
  • Chapter 1, "Gender-based Analysis," of the spring 2009 report of the Auditor General of Canada: Report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (2010)
    • Government Response
• Standing Committee on the Status of Women (FEWO) reports and government responses
  • Eleventh Report of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women: Towards Gender Responsive Budgeting: Rising to the Challenge of Achieving Gender Equality (2009)
  • Government Response to the Second Report of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women: Gender-based Analysis: Building Blocks for Success (2006)
  • Second Report of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women: Gender-based Analysis: Building Blocks for Success (2005)
• Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology
  • All Together – The Role of Gender-based Analysis Plus in the Policy Process: reducing barriers to an inclusive intersectional policy analysis