2025-2026 Gender‑based analysis plus
Table of contents
Section 1: institutional GBA Plus governance and capacity
Governance
In 2025-26, CanNor continued to meet with its internal GBA Plus Community of Practice, providing a space to share best practices surrounding the collection, storage and maintenance of data, including GBA Plus data, across the Agency. The GBA Plus Champion and officer continued to support GBA Plus initiatives across the Agency, working with the broader GBA Plus community in the Government of Canada to share best practices.
Capacity
CanNor continues to mandate GBA Plus training for all its employees. All performance indicator data is stored in the Agency's internal reporting and tracking system. The GBA Plus Community of Practice also drafted a CanNor focused GBA Plus policy guidance and will continue to improve its guidance. CanNor continues to strengthen its results and delivery practices to better report on GBA Plus outcomes, including tracking of GBA Plus training within the Agency. Furthermore, a cross Agency GBA Plus event was hosted to increase awareness and increase capacity internally.
Human resources (full-time equivalents) dedicated to GBA Plus
1 FTE
Section 2: gender and diversity impacts, by program
Core responsibility: Economic Development in the Territories
Program name: Business Development
Program goals: Business Development programming supports the growth and expansion of northern businesses, including small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It directly advances the Government of Canada's Gender Results Framework's economic participation and prosperity pillar, and indirectly supports the poverty reduction, health, and well-being pillar.
Target population: Northern Canadians
| Distribution | Group |
|---|---|
| By gender | Broadly gender-balanced |
| By income level | No significant distributional impacts |
| By age group | No significant intergenerational impacts or impacts on generations between youths and seniors |
Specific demographic group(s) to be monitored
Business Development programs benefit all Canadians in the territories. Some programs, such as the the Northern Indigenous Economic Opportunities Program – Community Readiness and Opportunities Planning (NIEOP-CROP), directly benefit Indigenous groups, while other programs benefit Indigenous groups indirectly. All business development programs indirectly benefit women and underrepresented groups in the North.
Key program impactsFootnote * on gender and diversity
| Statistic | Observed resultsFootnote * | Data source | Comment (Maximum 25 words per statistic) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of projects supported which are led/majority-led by an equity-seeking group, such as women; Indigenous Peoples; members of official language minority communities (OLMCs); youth; persons with disabilities; newcomers to Canada and immigrants; black communities; racialized communities and 2SLGBTQ+. | 157 | CanNor Internal System | 2025-26 Data |
| Dollar value of CanNor investment in projects which are led/majority-led by an equity-seeking group, such as women; Indigenous Peoples; members of official language minority communities (OLMCs); youth; persons with disabilities; newcomers to Canada and immigrants; black communities; racialized communities and 2SLGBTQ+. | $51M | CanNor Internal System | 2025-26 Data |
| Percentage of CanNor assisted entities which are led/majority-led by an equity-seeking group, such as women; Indigenous Peoples; members of official language minority communities (OLMCs); youth; persons with disabilities; newcomers to Canada and immigrants; black communities; racialized communities and 2SLGBTQ+. | 79% | CanNor Internal System | 2025-26 Data |
| Percentage of funding directed to projects which are led/majority-led by an equity-seeking group, such as women; Indigenous Peoples; members of official language minority communities (OLMCs); youth; persons with disabilities; newcomers to Canada and immigrants; black communities; racialized communities and 2SLGBTQ+. | 77% | CanNor Internal System | 2025-26 Data |
GBA Plus data collection plan
CanNor leveraged both program data and external data from Statistics Canada to address gaps and target investments toward sectors and businesses with higher concentrations of disproportionately impacted groups, including Indigenous Peoples, women, and youth. In 2025-2026, CanNor collected GBA Plus data through results indicators tied to the Departmental Results Framework and program indicators for business development programming.
Core responsibility: Economic Development in the Territories
Program name: Community Development
Program goals: Community Development programming provides community-level investments in infrastructure and to organizations, and individual-level investments in skills and capacity development. Community Development programming directly supports the Government of Canada's Gender Results Framework, specifically the education and skills development pillars; the economic participation and prosperity pillars and the poverty reduction, health and well-being pillars.
Target population: Northern Canadians
| Distribution | Group |
|---|---|
| By gender | Broadly gender-balanced |
| By income level | No significant distributional impacts |
| By age group | No significant intergenerational impacts or impacts on generations between youths and seniors |
Specific demographic group(s) to be monitored
Community Development programs benefit all Canadians in the territories. Some programs, such as NIEOP-CROP, directly benefit Indigenous groups, while other programs benefit Indigenous groups indirectly. All community development programs indirectly benefit women and underrepresented groups in the North.
Key program impactsFootnote * on gender and diversity
| Statistic | Observed resultsFootnote * | Data source | Comment (Maximum 25 words per statistic) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of projects supported which are led/majority-led by an equity-seeking group, such as women; Indigenous Peoples; members of official language minority communities (OLMCs); youth; persons with disabilities; newcomers to Canada and immigrants; black communities; racialized communities and 2SLGBTQ+. | 58 | CanNor Internal System | 2025-26 data. |
| Dollar value of CanNor investments in projects which are led/majority-led by an equity-seeking group, such as women; Indigenous Peoples; members of official language minority communities (OLMCs); youth; persons with disabilities; newcomers to Canada and immigrants; black communities; racialized communities and 2SLGBTQ+. | $12.5M | CanNor Internal System | 2025-26 data. |
| Percentage of CanNor assisted entities which are led/majority-led by an equity-seeking group, such as women; Indigenous Peoples; members of official language minority communities (OLMCs); youth; persons with disabilities; newcomers to Canada and immigrants; black communities; racialized communities and 2SLGBTQ+. | 97% | CanNor Internal System | 2025-26 data |
| Percentage of funding directed to projects which are led/majority-led by an equity-seeking group, such as women; Indigenous Peoples; members of official language minority communities (OLMCs); youth; persons with disabilities; newcomers to Canada and immigrants; black communities; racialized communities and 2SLGBTQ+. | 98% | CanNor Internal System | 2025-26 data. |
GBA Plus data collection plan
CanNor leveraged both program data and external data from Statistics Canada to address gaps and target investments toward sectors and businesses with higher concentrations of disproportionately impacted groups, including Indigenous Peoples, women, and youth. In 2025-2026, CanNor collected GBA Plus data through results indicators tied to the Departmental Results Framework and program indicators for business development programming.
Core responsibility: Economic Development in the Territories
Program name: Policy & Advocacy
Program goals: CanNor works with other federal departments and agencies to better understand the GBA Plus environment in the territories and advance federal objectives. Given CanNor's mandate and the region it serves, the experiences and realities of Indigenous Peoples in the North are integral to CanNor's advocacy role within the Government of Canada.
Target population: Northern Canadians
| Distribution | Group |
|---|---|
| By income level | No significant distributional impacts |
| By age group | No significant intergenerational impacts or impacts on generations between youths and seniors |
Specific demographic group(s) to be monitored
CanNor's policy and advocacy benefit all Canadians in the territories.
Key program impactsFootnote * on gender and diversity
Not available.
GBA Plus data collection plan
In 2025-2026, CanNor collected GBA Plus data through results indicators tied to the Departmental Results Framework.
Core responsibility: Economic Development in the Territories
Program name: Northern Projects Management Office
Program goals: The Northern Projects Management Office (NPMO) supports environmental impact assessment and regulatory processes for proposed major resource and infrastructure projects in the territories. It also directly supports the Government of Canada's Gender Results Framework, specifically the economic participation and prosperity pillars. NPMO collects and reports on its GBA Plus performance indicators to ensure inclusive and prosperous outcomes.
Target population: Northern Canadians
| Distribution | Group |
|---|---|
| By gender | Broadly gender-balanced |
| By income level | No significant distributional impacts |
| By age group | No significant intergenerational impacts or impacts on generations between youths and seniors |
Specific demographic group(s) to be monitored
The NPMO directly supports First Nations and Indigenous groups in Yukon and the Northwest Territories, as well as Inuit in Nunavut, by ensuring their views, interests, and concerns are actively monitored, tracked, and meaningfully consulted on throughout the impact assessment process and before federal decision-making. NPMO also directly tracks commitments and measures recommended to support women's and youth groups/organizations when identified by the co-management boards during their review/regulatory processes.
Key program impactsFootnote * on gender and diversity
Not available.
Other key program impacts
In 2025-26, NPMO continued to integrate GBA Plus into its work. Given NPMO's unique coordinating function, it relies on the northern impact assessment and regulatory review co-management boards' processes to ensure an equity approach and to gather data. Board-led processes are designed to consider perspectives from all parties participating in the review of a proposed major project. The boards' work includes providing opportunities for Indigenous communities and women and youth groups/organization to participate during their impact assessment and regulatory review processes.
NPMO is currently undergoing a redesign of its Database that helps support in tracking the GBA Plus-related information during impact assessment and regulatory review activities. The full effective implementation of the Database is delayed due to resource constraints and lack of internal capacity. Once operational, the redesigned Database will include tracking of concerns regarding the consideration, accommodation, protection, safety and well-being of gender-specific individuals where identified.
Supplementary information sources
GBA Plus data collection plan
In 2025-26, CanNor collected GBA Plus data through results indicators tied to the Departmental Results Framework and program indicators for NPMO. NPMO will continue to collect gender-based information throughout the northern impact assessment and regulatory review processes. This includes tracking communications with Indigenous and women-focused organizations participating in impact assessment and regulatory review processes, and the commitments and measures recommended to decrease barriers and increase labour participation for Indigenous people and women.
Scales
Gender scale
- First group: predominantly men (80% or more men)
- Second group: 60% to 79% men
- Third group: broadly gender-balanced
- Fourth group: 60% to 79% women
- Fifth group: predominantly women (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
- Fourth 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 or future generations
- Second group: no significant intergenerational impacts or impacts on generations between youths and seniors
- Third group: primarily benefits seniors or the baby boomer generation