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Details on Transfer Payment Programs

 
Program Activity: Women’s participation in Canadian society

 
1. Name of Transfer Payment Program: Women’s Program – Grants and contributions to women’ and other organizations for the purpose of furthering women’ participation in Canadian society. (Voted)

2. Start Date: 1973

3. End Date: Ongoing

4. Description: The mandate of the Women’s Program is to advance equality for women across Canada through improvement of their economic and social conditions and their participation in democratic life.

5. Strategic Outcome: Equality for women and their full participation in the economic, social and democratic life of Canada

6. Results Achieved: Refer to Section II of this report for details on results achieved by this program.

  ($ millions)
  7.
2008–
2009
Actual
Spend-
ing
8.
2009–
2010
Actual
Spend-
ing
9.
2010–
2011
Planned
Spend-
ing
10.
2010–
2011
Total
Author-
ities
11.
2010–
2011
Actual
Spend-
ing
12.
Vari-
ance(s)
13. Total Grants 17.55 14.69 14.75 14.75 14.75 0.00
14. Total Contributions 3.47 4.80 5.20 5.20 4.80 0.40
15. Total Program Activity 21.02 19.49 19.95 19.95 19.55 0.40

 
16. Comment on Variance: The variance between planned spending and actual spending of the Women’s Program budget was $404,554 (contributions). This occurred because two key partnership projects under development encountered unanticipated obstacles and did not proceed as planned.

17. Audit Completed or Planned: Horizontal Internal Audit of Grants and Contributions Management Control completed in 2010–2011.

Evaluation Completed or Planned: A summative evaluation of the Women’s Program to be completed in 2011–2012.