Customized Consulting & GBA Plus Services

We do everything from grant writing, to project management and implementation, to program evaluation.

Short answer: No. Longer answer: GBA+ includes examination and consideration of not only sex, gender and sexual orientation, but also includes Indigeneity, race, ethnicity, language, (dis)ability, geographic location, culture, religion, education, rank, income, and much more. GBA+ takes an intersectional approach and includes consideration of social and societal norms, power and privilege, unconscious biases and microaggressions, and equips you with a framework and process to be an ally and actively integrate DEI into your work.

If you receive funding or are regulated by the federal government or a provincial government in Canada, chances are your organization is required to adopt and integrate gender based analysis plus in your work. If not, GBA Plus is a versatile equity tool that can be successfully integrated into all types of work in any sector. Gender based analysis plus can be applied to policy or program development, implementation or evaluation; event planning; marketing campaigns; service delivery; infrastructure development; product design and development; and much more. The ultimate goal of a tool like GBA Plus is to advance inclusion and equality in your workplace.

Canadian Equality has specialized expertise in GBA Plus and excels at adapting the process, framework, methodology and tools to apply it to directly to any type of work and any sector. The online basic government training often fails because it is not customized to your work and does not provide tangible and immediately actionable tools.

Yes. We can lead and/or support your department in creating a gender-based analysis plus (GBA Plus) responsibility centre, conduct an organizational needs assessment, develop and draft a meaningful policy statement, design GBA Plus training and tools, pilot GBA Plus with one or several internal projects, and create a change management-informed roll-out plan for your entire organization, along with ongoing monitoring and evaluation.

The benefits of GBA Plus have been well documented by the Government of Canada and by Canadian Equality, and include:

• Cost savings,
• Improved decision-making,
• Improved communications,
• Better data and research capacity,
• Enhanced effectiveness,
• Increased empathy and engagement amongst co-workers.