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Name of Transfer Payment Program: Grants and Scholarships (voted)

Start date: 1978

End date: No end date

Fiscal Year for Terms and Conditions: 2011-12

Strategic Outcome:
1.0: Canada is a world leader in social sciences and humanities research and research training

Program Activity:
1.1 Talent: attraction, retention and development of students and researchers in the social sciences and humanities
1.2 Insight: new knowledge in the social sciences and humanities
1.3 Connection: mobilization of social sciences and humanities knowledge

Description: This transfer payment program (TPP) consists of grants and scholarships awarded for research, research training, and research dissemination activities in the social sciences and humanities.

Expected results:

• SSHRC-funded scholarship and fellowship recipients are employed in positions of leadership, research, management, etc. in Canada and internationally.
• Canada builds research excellence and research capacity by attracting, developing and retaining world-class SSH researchers in Canadian institutions.
• SSHRC funds excellent SSH researchers/new scholars.
• Creation of new/enhanced research knowledge.
• Additional funding is leveraged to advance research, build capacity and increase intersectoral understanding among partners.
• Partners and researchers benefit from linkages and mobilizing knowledge within and across their respective sectors.
• Additional funding is leveraged to mobilize knowledge in SSH.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13	Planned Spending 2013-14	Planned Spending 2014-15
Total Grants	242.6	240.5	240.9	240.9
Total Contributions	—	—	—	—
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	—	—	—	—
Total Transfer Payments	242.6	240.5	240.9	240.9

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation:

• Summative Cluster Evaluation of the SSHRC Institutional Grants (SIG) and Aid to Small Universities (ASU) Programs: 2010-11
• Tenth-Year Evaluation of the Canada Research Chairs Program: 2010-11
• Summative Evaluation of the Standard Research Grants and Research Development Initiatives Programs: 2010-11
• Summative Evaluation of the Postdoctoral Fellowships Program: 2011-12
• Summative Evaluation of Prizes and Special Research Fellowships: 2011-12

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation:

• Knowledge Mobilization—Summative Cluster Evaluation: 2012-13
• SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships Evaluation: 2014-15
• Institutional Research Capacity Grants Evaluation: 2014-15
• Evaluation of the Canada Research Chairs Program: 2015-16
• Individual, Team and Partnership Grants Evaluation: 2015-16

General Targeted Recipient Group: Other (students, researchers, post-secondary institutions, not-for-profit organizations)

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: A variety of engagement initiatives (webinars, site visits, telephone, email, online forums, etc.) are used as part of the regular competition cycle in order to give applicants and recipients opportunities to seek and receive information and to provide feedback on service delivery.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canada Graduate Scholarships (voted)

Start date: 2003

End date: No end date

Fiscal Year for Terms and Conditions: 2008-09

Strategic Outcome:
1.0: Canada is a world leader in social sciences and humanities research and research training

Program Activity:
1.1 Talent: attraction, retention and development of students and researchers in the social sciences and humanities

Description: This transfer payment program supports doctoral students and master’s students in the social sciences and humanities.

Expected results:

• Increased incentives for students to enroll in graduate studies in Canada.
• Increased incentives for students to complete studies in a timely manner.
• Students receive high-quality research training.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13	Planned Spending 2013-14	Planned Spending 2014-15
Total Grants	72.5	69.0	69.0	69.0
Total Contributions	—	—	—	—
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	—	—	—	—
Total Transfer Payments	72.5	69.0	69.0	69.0

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation:

• Evaluation of the Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) Program: 2009-10

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation:

• Canada Graduate Scholarships Program (CGS) Evaluation: 2013-14

General Targeted Recipient Group: Other (students)

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: A variety of engagement initiatives (webinars, site visits, telephone, email, online forums, etc.) are used as part of the regular competition cycle in order to give applicants and recipients opportunities to seek and receive information and to provide feedback on service delivery.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (voted)

Start date: 2008

End date: No end date

Fiscal Year for Terms and Conditions: 2008-09

Strategic Outcome:
1.0: Canada is a world leader in social sciences and humanities research and research training

Program Activity:
1.1 Talent: attraction, retention and development of students and researchers in the social sciences and humanities

Description: SSHRC’s portion of this tri-agency class grant transfer payment program provides financial support to Canadian and international students who have achieved outstanding success in their studies and will pursue a doctoral program at a Canadian university in an area of the social sciences and humanities.

Expected results:

• Enhanced capacity of Canadian universities to attract and retain the best and brightest doctoral students.
• Vanier SSH graduates have the potential to become leaders in Canada and abroad.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13	Planned Spending 2013-14	Planned Spending 2014-15
Total Grants	8.3	8.3	8.3	8.3
Total Contributions	—	—	—	—
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	—	—	—	—
Total Transfer Payments	8.3	8.3	8.3	8.3

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation: N/A

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: N/A

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation:

• Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships Evaluation: 2012-13

General Targeted Recipient Group: Other (students)

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: A variety of engagement initiatives (webinars, site visits, telephone, email, online forums, etc.) are used as part of the regular competition cycle in order to give applicants and recipients opportunities to seek and receive information and to provide feedback on service delivery.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Indirect Costs of Research (voted)

Start date: 2003

End date: No end date

Fiscal Year for Terms and Conditions: 2009-10

Strategic Outcome:
2.0: Canada has the institutional capacity to enable research and research-related activities in social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering and health

Program Activity:
2.1 Indirect Costs of Research

Description: This transfer payment program supports a portion of the indirect costs associated with the conduct of academic research in institutions that receive research grant funds from any of the three federal research granting agencies. Grants are awarded to eligible institutions using a progressive funding formula based on the average revenues from research grants received from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and SSHRC.

Expected results:

• Universities and colleges have the necessary resources to host world-class research and enable knowledge mobilization.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13	Planned Spending 2013-14	Planned Spending 2014-15
Total Grants	331.7	332.4	332.4	332.4
Total Contributions	—	—	—	—
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	—	—	—	—
Total Transfer Payments	331.7	332.4	332.4	332.4

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation:

• Evaluation of the Tri-Agency Indirect Costs Program: 2009-10

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation:

• Indirect Costs Program Evaluation: 2013-14

General Targeted Recipient Group: Other (post-secondary institutions)

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: A variety of engagement initiatives (site visits, telephone, email, online forums, etc.) are used in order to give applicants and recipients opportunities to seek and receive information and to provide feedback on service delivery.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Networks of Centres of Excellence (voted)

Start date: 1997

End date: No end date

Fiscal Year for Terms and Conditions: 2008-09

Strategic Outcome:
1.0: Canada is a world leader in social sciences and humanities research and research training

Program Activity:
1.3 Connection: mobilization of social sciences and humanities knowledge

Description: This federal class grants transfer payment program is administered jointly by the three federal research granting agencies in partnership with Industry Canada. It supports research in complex areas of critical importance to Canadian universities and hospitals in partnership with the private and public sectors. The networks funded through this program are multidisciplinary and multisectoral partnerships that stimulate leading-edge, internationally competitive research in areas critical to Canadian economic and social development.

Expected results:

• Linkages and partnerships resulting in the transfer and use of knowledge with economic or societal benefits to Canada.

	($ millions)
	Forecast Spending 2011-12	Planned Spending 2012-13	Planned Spending 2013-14	Planned Spending 2014-15
Total Grants	11.8	11.3	11.3	11.3
Total Contributions	—	—	—	—
Total Other Types of Transfer Payments	—	—	—	—
Total Transfer Payments	11.8	11.3	11.3	11.3

Fiscal Year of Last Completed Evaluation:

• Summative Evaluation of the Networks of Centres of Excellence—New Initiatives: 2009-10

Decision following the Results of Last Evaluation: Continuation

Fiscal Year of Planned Completion of Next Evaluation:

• Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) Evaluation: 2013-14

General Targeted Recipient Group: Other (post-secondary institutions)

Initiatives to Engage Applicants and Recipients: A variety of engagement initiatives (site visits, telephone, email, online forums, etc.) are used as part of each competition cycle in order to give applicants and recipients opportunities to seek and receive information and to provide feedback on service delivery.

Strategies / Comments

I. Approach

In keeping with the nature and scope of its procurement activities, SSHRC is continuing its ongoing investigation and incorporation of green procurement opportunities as part of its business practices. The vice-president, Common Administrative Services Directorate, is responsible for SSHRC’s application of the Policy on Green Procurement. In 2012-13, as part of its organizational business transformation initiatives, SSHRC will explore new green solution opportunities, and will build on its existing good green practices.

II. Management processes and controls

1. SSHRC uses Public Works and Government Services Canada procurement instruments as its primary procurement mechanism.
2. In 2012-13, all SSHRC contracting documents will be reviewed to ensure that new contracts include a clause addressing environmental considerations in the performance of the work required.

III. Setting targets

SSHRC has set the following targets for 2012-13:

1. Maintain reduction in paper usage by continuing to set double-sided printing as the default option for SSHRC printers, and continuing the transition to online application submission options in place of hard-copy submission requirements.
2. By March 2013, be able to identify 65 per cent of office supplies as having environmental features.
3. In 2012-13, assess additional possible reduction targets for specific office supply goods.

IV. Training

1. The organization will ensure that all existing procurement and materiel management functional staff take the Canada School of Public Service Course 215 on green procurement as part of the current on-boarding program to be integrated into SSHRC’s training curriculum.
2. SSHRC will raise internal awareness regarding green procurement with key stakeholders.
3. Management will increase staff awareness of environmental practices, such as limiting the number of printed copies of documents and using two-sided printing and copying.

Performance evaluation
The performance management agreement of the manager, Procurement, Contracts and Materiel Management, includes the objective of ensuring that environmental considerations are taken into account in all procurement activities.

Meeting targets
SSHRC will review its green procurement strategies at mid-year to ensure they are on track to be achieved by the end of the fiscal year.