What works in Canada
18 evaluated practices · All catalogues
Evidence snapshot for Canada
Canada has implemented several major policy and social initiatives with measurable reach and outcomes. The Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care System has reduced child-care spending from ~16% to 5% of after-tax family income and correlated with record maternal labour-force participation of 79.6% by 2023, though only 112,000 of 250,000+ targeted new spaces were created by 2024/25. Digital inclusion efforts including the Digital Literacy Exchange Program reached 650,000+ Canadians from underserved groups over 2018–2025, and K-Net extended community-owned broadband and telehealth infrastructure to 100+ First Nations communities across northern Ontario. Community-led initiatives like Cyber-Seniors have trained 8,500+ seniors in digital competence through volunteer-led peer mentoring.
Drawn from: Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care System ($10-a-Day Child Care) · K-Net — First Nations-Owned Broadband and Telehealth Network · Cyber-Seniors: Connecting Generations — Reverse-Mentoring Digital and Online-Safety Training · Digital Literacy Exchange Program (DLEP) · Canada's Federal Pay Equity Act 2018 — Proactive Equal-Pay Regime for Federally Regulated Workplaces · CDA-AMC's Evaluation of AI Search Tools for Health-Technology-Assessment Evidence Synthesis · IRCC IEC Work Permit Eligibility Model — Canada's AI Tool for Youth Mobility · GCtranslate — Canada's AI Translation Tool Scaling Across the Federal Public Service
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +0.67
Documented learning +0.276
Demonstrated reach +0.265
Curator validation +0.25
Evidence of impact / measured public value +0.235
Transparency, fairness & accountability +0.231
Effectiveness +0.189
Sustainability (ongoing) +0.186
Evidence of learning impact +0.173
Impact on gender equality +0.173
Evaluated outcomes +0.163
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +0.128
Scalability beyond pilot +0.103
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +0.098
Weaknesses
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced -0.099
Innovation level -0.123
Transparency, ethics & data protection -0.251
Equity & inclusion -0.39
Top good practices here
Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care System ($10-a-Day Child Care) · 96
K-Net — First Nations-Owned Broadband and Telehealth Network · 96
Cyber-Seniors: Connecting Generations — Reverse-Mentoring Digital and Online-Safety Training · 88
Digital Literacy Exchange Program (DLEP) · 88
Canada's Federal Pay Equity Act 2018 — Proactive Equal-Pay Regime for Federally Regulated Workplaces · 85
CDA-AMC's Evaluation of AI Search Tools for Health-Technology-Assessment Evidence Synthesis · 80
IRCC IEC Work Permit Eligibility Model — Canada's AI Tool for Youth Mobility · 80
GCtranslate — Canada's AI Translation Tool Scaling Across the Federal Public Service · 73
Recommended to adopt or replicate
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- Rated highly transferable
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SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
work2future · fit 100
- Rated highly transferable