Women, Gender Equality and Youth
How Women, Gender Equality and Youth spent its budget in fiscal year 2023-24, shown as net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II.
Women, Gender Equality and Youth leads federal efforts to advance gender equality, including programming that addresses gender-based violence and supports the participation of women, youth, and other underrepresented groups in Canadian society.
In fiscal year 2023-24, Women, Gender Equality and Youth spent $320.9M, or 0.1% of total federal spending.
All of this spending was administered through the Department for Women and Gender Equality. Its largest transfer payments were contributions under the Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program, followed by the Women's Program and the Gender-based Violence Funding Program, both of which also included smaller grant components.
Department Spending
In FY 2023-24,
$320.9M
was spent by Women, Gender Equality and Youth
In FY 2023-24,
0.1%
of federal spending was by Women, Gender Equality and Youth
How did Women, Gender Equality and Youth spend its budget in 2023-24?
Spending by entity, FY 2023-24
Department for Women and Gender Equality
$320.9M
Women, Gender Equality and Youth’s share of federal spending
Percentage of federal spending, 2019–2025
Line items
Every transfer-payment (grant and contribution) program, in dollars. These are the named programs behind the transfer-payments object in the chart above. Search, sort, and download the full table.
| Category | Description | Amount ▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Contributions | Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program–Contributions to support capacity building and community-level work of Canadian Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex+ organizations | $123,948,171 |
| Contributions | Women's Program—Contributions to women's and other voluntary organizations for the purpose of furthering women's participation in Canadian society | $79,326,543 |
| Contributions | Gender-based Violence Funding Program—Contributions to Canadian organizations, institutions and other levels of government to improve supports and help create long-term, comprehensive solutions for survivors at the national, regional and local levels | $33,442,197 |
| Grants | Women's Program—Grants to women's and other voluntary organizations for the purpose of furthering women's participation in Canadian society | $5,160,065 |
| Grants | Gender-based Violence Funding Program—Grants to Canadian organizations, institutions and other levels of government to improve supports and help create long-term, comprehensive solutions for survivors at the national, regional and local levels | $4,120,034 |
| Grants | Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program–Grants to support capacity building and community-level work of Canadian Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex+ organizations | $3,301,330 |
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Women, Gender Equality and Youth figures are net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II, and will not match the Volume I consolidated headline totals. See the methodology for details.
