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Details of Transfer Payment Programs (TPPs)1
Name of Transfer Payment Program: Grants for Research Projects and Personnel Support
Start date: October 2000
End date: N/A
Description: CIHR provides a wide array of funding programs under this transfer payment program. This includes grants which provide support for the direct costs of health research projects and awards that provide support to individual health researchers and trainees. Infrastructure grants help create optimum environments for the conduct of health research. This includes funding for researcher networking and collaborative activities and grants to selected organizations such as the Canadian Council on Animal Care that facilitate the ethical conduct of research.
Strategic Outcome: 1.0 Advances in Health Knowledge, 2.0 People and Research Capacity, 3.0 Knowledge Translation and Commercialization.
Results Achieved:
- CIHR grants helped maintain a strong and diverse health research base, programs continue to demonstrate strong application pressure and an increase in the average cost of research projects was accommodated through internal reallocation of funding.
- CIHR invested a significant portion of its grants budget to fund health research in the areas of importance to Canadians, including: clinical research, pandemic preparedness, HIV/AIDS, aging, cancer, and regenerative medicine.
- CIHR supported over 13,600 researchers and trainees in all domains of health research.
- CIHR worked in partnership with small and medium enterprises as well as multi-national pharmaceutical companies to support pre-competitive R&D programs. CIHR also supported an array of Research Commercialization Programs, which helped researchers translate research findings into new products, knowledge translation programs and services; or, policies and procedures for the benefit of Canadians.
| Actual Spending 2007-08 |
Actual Spending 2008-09 |
Planned Spending 2009-10 |
Total Authorities 2009-10 |
Actual Spending 2009-10* |
Variance(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Grants | $ 798.8 | $ 852.9 | $ 841.5 | $ 844.1 | $ 845.1 | $ 1.0 |
| Total Contributions | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - |
| Total Other types of transfer payments | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - |
| Total Program Activity(ies) | $ 798.8 | $ 852.9 | $ 841.5 | $ 844.1 | $ 845.1 | $ 1.0 |
Comment(s) on Variance(s): Variance between authorities and actual spending is not significant.
Audit completed or planned:
- Audit of Salary and Training Awards (To be completed July 2010)
- Audit of a Research-Related Activity Program (Planned 2011-12)
Evaluation completed or planned:
- Pandemic Preparedness Research Initiative Evaluation (Complete)
- Randomized Controlled Trials Program Evaluation (To be completed in 2010-11)
- Team Grants Program Evaluation (To be completed in 2010-11)
- Strategic Initiatives Program Evaluation (To be completed in 2010-11)
- Canada Research Chairs Grant Program Evaluation (To be completed in 2010-11)
- Open Operating Grants Program Evaluation (To be completed in 2011-12)
- Salary Support Programs Evaluation (To be completed in 2011-12)
* Note: The Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) grant was presented as a separate Transfer Payment Program in 2009-10. As a result, the 2009-10 Actual Spending figures for the Grants for Research Projects and Personnel Support transfer payment program appear to have decreased in comparison to 2008-09 and 2007-08. Adding two figures for 2009-10 Actual Spending from both the NCE and Grants for Research Projects and Personnel Support tables will provide comparable data for the Grants for Research Projects and Personnel Support transfer payment program to 2008-09 and 2007-08.
Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canada Graduate Scholarships
Start date: 2003-04
End date: N/A
Description: The Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) Program provides financial support to develop future researchers at both the Masters and Doctoral levels. The CGS is a tri-council program with CIHR responsible for administering that portion of the program that is directed at students pursuing health related studies.
Strategic Outcome: 2.0 People and Research Capacity
Results Achieved: In 2009-10, CIHR funded 190 new Doctoral awards and 485 new Master’s awards through the CGS program. A recent investment from the Government of Canada's 2009 Budget, Canada's Economic Action Plan, provided CIHR with funding to temporarily expand the CGS Program. This enabled CIHR to create an additional 200 new three-year Doctoral awards and 400 new one-year Master’s awards.
| Actual Spending 2007-08 |
Actual Spending 2008-09 |
Planned Spending 2009-10 |
Total Authorities 2009-10 |
Actual Spending 2009-10 |
Variance(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Grants | $ 13.9 | $ 18.7 | $ 36.1 | $ 35.8 | $ 34.6 | ($ 1.2) |
| Total Contributions | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - |
| Total Other types of transfer payments | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - |
| Total Program Activity(ies) | $ 13.9 | $ 18.7 | $ 36.1 | $ 35.8 | $ 34.6 | ($ 1.2) |
Comment(s) on Variance(s): Variance between authorities and actual spending is not significant.
Audit completed or planned: N/A
Evaluation completed or planned: An evaluation of the Canada Graduate Scholarship was completed in 2008. The next one is planned for 2012-13.
Name of Transfer Payment Program: Institute Support Grants
Start date: October 2000
End date: N/A
Description: The Institute Support Grant (ISG) Program provides funding to select Canadian academic institutions, including universities and teaching hospitals, to assist them in hosting the 13 Institutes of CIHR. The Institutes help CIHR maintain strong ties to Canada's research communities and to understand their needs. Each CIHR-appointed Institute Scientific Director is among the top scientists in his/her field and helps CIHR define its strategic health research priorities and develop research partnerships with other interested parties.
Strategic Outcome: 2.0 People and Research Capacity
Results Achieved: In 2009-10, CIHR provided each of its 13 Institutes a $1.0M grant to support Institute operations, including the salaries of Scientific Directors, Institute Staff and other administrative expenses. Institute Support Grants also supportactivities that facilitate and develop national research networks linking the Institutes’ respective research communities.
| Actual Spending 2007-08 |
Actual Spending 2008-09 |
Planned Spending 2009-10 |
Total Authorities 2009-10 |
Actual Spending 2009-10 |
Variance(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Grants | $ 13.0 | $ 13.0 | $ 13.0 | $ 13.0 | $ 13.1 | $ 0.1 |
| Total Contributions | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - |
| Total Other types of transfer payments | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - |
| Total Program Activity(ies) | $ 13.0 | $ 13.0 | $ 13.0 | $ 13.0 | $ 13.1 | $ 0.1 |
Comment(s) on Variance(s): Variance between authorities and actual spending is not significant.
Audit completed or planned: N/A
Evaluation completed or planned: An evaluation of the Institute Support Grants is planned for 2012-13.
Name of Transfer Payment Program: Networks of Centres of Excellence
Start date: October 2000
End date: N/A
Description: The Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) Program is a federal class grants program administered jointly by the three federal granting agencies – CIHR, along with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) –
in partnership with Industry Canada. Networks are not-for-profit corporations with an establish Board of Directors and are unique partnerships among the academic, private, public and not-for-profit sectors. These nation-wide, multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral partnerships connect excellent research with industrial know-how and strategic investment. Networks put in place
well-defined strategies to transfer knowledge to users, ensuring that discoveries and technological advances are turned into social and economic benefits for all Canadians.
Strategic Outcome: 3.0 Knowledge Translation and Commercialization
Results Achieved: In 2009-10, 15 recipients of ongoing, multi-year NCE awards received funds which helped them build structured networks, establish multi-sectoral partnerships, and commercialize health research findings. Through the NCE Program, CIHR was able to help mobilize Canada's health research talent in the academic, private and public sectors and apply it to the task of developing the economy and improving the quality of life of Canadians.
| Actual Spending 2007-08 |
Actual Spending 2008-09 |
Planned Spending 2009-10 |
Total Authorities 2009-10 |
Actual Spending 2009-10* |
Variance(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Grants | $ 27.5 | $ 26.1 | $ 27.5 | $ 27.5 | $ 27.5 | $ - |
| Total Contributions | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - |
| Total Other types of transfer payments | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - | $ - |
| Total Program Activity(ies) | $ 27.5 | $ 26.1 | $ 27.5 | $ 27.5 | $ 27.5 | $ - |
Comment(s) on Variance(s): N/A
Audit completed or planned: N/A
Evaluation completed or planned: An evaluation of the Networks of Centres of Excellence Program is scheduled for 2012-13.
*Note: The Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) grant was presented as a separate Transfer Payment Program in 2009-10. As a result, the 2009-10 Actual Spending figures for the Grants for Research Projects and Personnel Support transfer payment program appear to have decreased in comparison to 2008-09 and 2007-08. Adding two figures for 2009-10 Actual Spending from both the NCE and Grants for Research Projects and Personnel Support tables will provide comparable data for the Grants for Research Projects and Personnel Support transfer payment program to 2008-09 and 2007-08.
1. The amounts only include grant programs where expenditures exceed $5 million.