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Section III: Supplementary Information

3.1 Organizational Information

Figure 1: SSHRC - Corporate Structure and Mandate

SSHRC reports to Parliament through the Minister of Industry, who has certain statutory responsibilities regarding, and general oversight of, the Council (Figure 1). SSHRC is governed by a 22-member Board (Figure 2) which the Governor-in-Council appoints to represent the interests of the academic, public and private sectors in all regions of Canada.

SSHRC's Board meets regularly, determines program and policy priorities, initiatives and budget allocations, and monitors their implementation.

The Board is chaired by SSHRC's President, who, as Chief Executive Officer, manages day-to-day affairs, has a direct relationship with stakeholders and the public, and is accountable for the administration of public funds and for delivering on the Council's mandate. Currently, three vice-presidents, one director-general and one executive director report to the President and are responsible, respectively, for Programs, Corporate Affairs, Knowledge Products and Mobilization (KPM), Administrative Services, and the Canada Research Chairs Program Secretariat.

Figure 2: SSHRC - Governance and Committee Structure

Six standing Council committees (Figure 2) help chart SSHRC's direction and ensure that its grant and fellowship programs meet the needs of Canadians:

• The Executive Committee has the authority to act for SSHRC's Board in policy, procedural, human resources and administrative matters.
• The Audit Committee reviews the Council's operations budget, audit plan, and the scope, findings and recommendations of independent studies carried out in accordance with professional standards. It also reviews and makes recommendations regarding the approval of SSHRC's annual financial statements.
• The Performance and Evaluation Committee assists the Council in developing and implementing performance measurement, management and reporting strategies, including a Results-based Management and Accountability Framework (RMAF). In addition, the committee reviews the Council's evaluation plans and makes recommendations regarding completed evaluations.
• The Research Support Committee provides policy and administrative advice to SSHRC's Board and staff on research, strategic and dissemination programs. It also monitors peer-review processes and competition results.
• The Fellowships and Career Development Committee advises the Board and guides staff on research training issues.
• The Ethics and Integrity Committee provides policy and administrative advice to the Board and staff on research ethics and research integrity issues.
• Finally, as required and appropriate, the Council creates ad hoc advisory committees and working groups on specific questions within the purview of its mandate.

In addition to these corporate committees, selection committees of university-based researchers and, where appropriate, experts from outside the academic community, adjudicate applications to SSHRC programs in accordance with the principles of rigorous peer-review based on excellence. Each year, some 420 scholars and experts volunteer to serve on selection committees to assess thousands of research proposals and, based on academic excellence and other key criteria, to make recommendations about which projects to fund. About 5,250 other Canadian and international experts provide written assessments of proposals to help the selection committees in their decision-making.

In SSHRC's organizational structure, accountability for program activities runs along the following lines (Figure 3): as Chief Executive Officer, the President is accountable for the overall administration of public funds and for delivering on SSHRC's substantive mandate. The Executive Vice-President, Vice-President (Programs), Director-General (Common Administrative Services Directorate - CASD), and Executive Director (Canada Research Chairs Program Secretariat) report to the President and are accountable for the program sub-activities in their respective portfolios.

Until the Governor-in-Council appoints a permanent full-time president, SSHRC's interim President will act as the "external face" of the Council, while the Executive Vice-President and current Chief Operating Officer will look after internal and operational matters. SSHRC is presently re-organizing its programs directorate and is planning to create, in 2006-2007, a second vice-president position, which will be accountable for partnerships, strategic programs, joint initiatives and knowledge mobilization. In addition, SSHRC will staff the new position of Corporate Secretary responsible for the Corporate Secretariat.

For regular Council programs, Table 3 indicates accountability for operational matters at the divisional level in accordance with SSHRC's PAA. For programs which SSHRC administers on behalf of Canada's three granting councils or which other entities administer for the Council, Table 3 shows the entity accountable for decisions about program and policy priorities, initiatives, budget allocations, and monitoring the implementation of decisions.

Figure 3: SSHRC - Accountability for Program Activities and Organizational Structure

Table 3: Accountability for Program Activities and Sub-Activities

Program Activity	Program Sub-Activity	Accountability
Strategic Outcome (SO) 1.0 People – A First-Class Research Capacity in the Social Sciences and Humanities
1.1 Fellowships, Scholar-ships and Prizes	1.1.1 Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS)	Director, Fellowships and Institutional Grants
	1.1.2 Doctoral Fellowships (DF)
	1.1.3 Postdoctoral Fellowships (PDF)
	1.1.4 Prizes and Special Fellowships
1.2 Canada Research Chairs	1.2.1 Canada Research Chairs Program	Steering Committee (SSHRC, NSERC, CIHR, CFI, Industry Canada); Executive Director, Canada Research Chairs Secretariat
SO 2.0 Research – New Knowledge Based on Excellent Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities
2.1 Investigator-Framed Research	2.1.1 Standard Research Grants (SRG)	Director, Research and Dissemination Grants
	2.1.2 Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (MCRI)
2.2 Targeted Research and Training Initiatives	2.2.1 Strategic Research Grants	Director, Strategic Programs and Joint Initiatives
	2.2.2 Strategic Joint Initiatives
	2.2.3 Initiative on the New Economy (INE)
2.3 Strategic Research Development	2.3.1 Research Development Initiatives (RDI)
	2.3.2 Community-University Research Alliances (CURA)
	2.3.3 SSHRC Institutional Grants (SIG)	Director, Fellowships and Institutional Grants
	2.3.4 Aid to Small Universities (ASU)
	2.3.5 General Support	Vice-President, Programs; Executive Vice-President
	2.3.6 International Opportunities Fund (IOF)	Director, Strategic Programs and Joint Initiatives
	2.3.7 BOREAS
SO 3.0 Knowledge Mobilization – The Transfer, Dissemination and Use of Knowledge in the Social Sciences and Humanities
3.1 Research Communication and Interaction	3.1.1 Aid to Scholarly Publications (ASPP)	Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS)
	3.1.2 Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada	Director, Research and Dissemination Grants
	3.1.3 Aid to Research and Transfer Journals
	3.1.4 Aid and Attendance Grants to Scholarly Associations
	3.1.5 Strategic Knowledge Clusters	Director, Strategic Programs and Joint Initiatives
	3.1.6 Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE)	Steering Committee (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR, Industry Canada); Director, NCE Program
	3.1.7 Knowledge Impact in Society (KIS)	Director, Strategic Programs and Joint Initiatives
SO 4.0 - Institutional Environment: A Strong Canadian Research Environment
4.1 Indirect Costs of Research	4.1.1 Indirect Costs of Research Program	Steering Committee (SSHRC, NSERC, CIHR, CFI, Industry Canada); Executive Director, Canada Research Chairs Secretariat

3.2 Resource Requirements and Management Policies

Table 4: Departmental Planned Spending and Full Time Equivalents

($ millions)	Forecast Spending 2005-2006	Planned Spending 2006-2007	Planned Spending 2007-2008	Planned Spending 2008-2009
Fellowships, Scholarships and Prizes	89.0	101.5	101.5	101.5
Canada Research Chairs	56.9	61.8	61.8	61.8
Investigator-Framed Research	83.8	89.5	89.5	89.5
Targeted Research and Training Initiatives	32.8	23.7	16.9	12.0
Strategic Research Development	22.6	24.0	24.0	24.0
Research Communication and Interaction	17.2	20.7	20.0	20.0
Subtotal	302.3	321.2	313.7	308.8
Indirect Costs Program	245.0	260.1	260.1	260.1
Budgetary Main Estimates (gross)	547.3	581.3	573.8	568.9
Total Main Estimates	547.3	581.3	573.8	568.9
Adjustments:
Governor General Warrants:
Carry-Forward from 2004-2005	0.9	-	-	-
2005 Federal Budget	0.1	-0.1	-	-
Procurement Savings	0.0	-	-	-
Compensation for Collective Bargaining:	0.6	-	-	-
Access to TB Vote 5 Items:
2005 Federal Budget – Social Sciences and Humanities	10.1	-	-	-
2005 Federal Budget – Indirect Costs Program	14.6	-	-	-
Transfer from Canadian Heritage – Official Languages	0.5	-	-	-
Transfer from Citizenship and Immigration (CIC) – Immigration and the Metropolis	0.3	-	-	-
Other Adjustments:
Social Economy Suite - Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU) Re-profiling	-1.2	-
2006 Federal Budget – Social Sciences and Humanities		6.0	6.0	6.0
2006 Federal Budget – Indirect Costs Program		40.0	40.0	40.0
Total Adjustments	26.0	46.0	46.0	46.0
Total Planned Spending	573.3	627.3	619.8	614.9
Total Planned Spending	573.3	627.3	619.8	614.9
Less: Non-Respendable revenue	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.3
Plus: Cost of services received without charge	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9
Net cost of Department	572.9	626.9	619.4	614.5
Full Time Equivalents (FTE)	184	190	190	190

Table 5: Planned Spending by Program Activity (PA) for Estimates Year

2006-2007
Program Activity   ($ millions)	Budgetary			Non-Budgetary	Total Main Estimates	Adjustments (Planned Spending Not In Main Estimates)	Total Planned Spending
	Operating	Grants and Contributions	Net	Loans, Investments and Advances
1.1: Fellowships, Scholarships and Prizes	3.1	98.4	101.5	-	101.5	0.8	102.3
1.2: Canada Research Chairs	2.6	59.2	61.8	-	61.8	0.0	61.8
2.1: Investigator-Framed Research	5.4	84.1	89.5	-	89.5	1.1	90.6
2.2: Targeted Research and Training Initiatives	4.3	19.4	23.7	-	23.7	2.0	25.7
2.3: Strategic Research Development	3.9	20.1	24.0	-	24.0	1.0	25.0
3.1: Research Communication and Interaction	1.5	19.2	20.7	-	20.7	1.1	21.8
Subtotal	20.8	300.4	321.2	-	321.2	6.0	327.2
4.1: Indirect Costs of Research	1.0	259.1	260.1	-	260.1	40.0	300.1
Total	21.9	559.4	581.3	-	581.3	46.0	627.3

Table 6: Voted and Statutory Items Listed in Main Estimates

2006-2007
Vote or Statutory Item	Truncated Vote or Statutory Wording	2006-2007 Main Estimates (thousands $)	2005-2006 Main Estimates (thousands $)
80	Operating expenditures	19,616	18,491
85	Grants	559,445	526,627
(L)	Contributions to employee benefit plans	2,260	2,166
	Total Department	581,321	547,284

Table 7: Services Received Without Charge

2006-2007
($ millions)	Total
Total Planned Spending	627.3
Plus: Services Received without Charge
Accommodation provided by Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC)	-
Contributions covering employer’s share of employees’ insurance premiums and expenditures paid by TBS (excluding revolving funds)	0.9
Worker’s compensation coverage provided by Human Resources and Social Development Canada	-
Salary and associated expenditures of legal services provided by Justice Canada	-
	0.9
Less: Non-respendable Revenue	1.3
2006-2007 Net cost of Department	626.9

Table 8: Sources of Non-Respendable Revenue

Non-Respendable Revenue
($ millions)	Forecast Revenue 2004-2005	Planned Revenue 2006-2007	Planned Revenue 2007-2008	Planned Revenue 2008-2009
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Fund Basic Research
Refunds of previous years' expenditures	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.3
Total Non-Respendable Revenue	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.3

Table 9: Details on Transfer Payments Programs (TPP): Grants, Contributions and Other Transfer Payments

Over the next three years, SSHRC will manage the following transfer payment programs in excess of $5 million:

2006-2007

1. Grants and Scholarships
2. Canada Graduate Scholarships
3. Indirect Costs of Research

2007-2008

1. Grants and Scholarships
2. Canada Graduate Scholarships
3. Indirect Costs of Research

2008-2009

1. Grants and Scholarships
2. Canada Graduate Scholarships
3. Indirect Costs of Research

For further information on the above-mentioned transfer payments programs, see: http://www.sshrc.ca/web/about/publications/publications-eng.asp; and http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/est-pre/estime.asp.

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