Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. We track in a number of different ways how we look at the results, longitudinally over time with some of the programs we put in place. Very important to have the evaluation framework overall. Members may recall that each year the Minister tables a results report for 20/20, Public Service Strategic Plan, which describes the progress we’ve made in the past year in the five different thematic areas within the Public Service Strategic Plan overall, and that we table every spring and that gives an overall high level snapshot.
At the same time, the funding that’s in this area is used to implement a lot of things that are corporate in nature. For example, some of the funding that’s included in this budget, and part of the other O and
M, is the funding that supports interns across the organization. We have a pot of money that departments apply to us for to support up to $40,000 per intern per department. Departments then top up the rest.
We have funding for progressive experience and relevant experience programs for summer students, as well, that’s in this pot of funding, about $500,000. We also, out of this area, do a lot of the work, support the work for occupational health and training. We do our Leadership Development Program, which we have done in partnership with the University of Alberta, where we put a lot of people through this program to be able to develop overall leadership skills that will be useful to them as they progress in their career either within the public service or elsewhere.
We also have our Associate Director/ Superintendent Program as it was formerly referred to. We are now calling it our Aboriginal Management Development Program, which supports two year developmental positions for priority 1 indigenous Aboriginal candidates that departments apply to us for the funding. We provide that funding to the departments and they implement a very rigorous development plan for indigenous Aboriginal candidate to be able to step into management within the public service and into a permanent position after their two years.
We have other work underway like our Regional Recruitment Program and our competencies that are all covered through this and we are seeing long-term incremental development in each of these areas as we report out in the results report. Thank you very much.