Deadline: 18-Mar-22
The Government of Canada is pleased to announce the Sectoral Workforce Solutions Program.
The Program will support projects that focus on a range of industry-driven activities such as training and reskilling workers, helping employers retain and attract a skilled and diverse workforce and other creative solutions to help sectors address labor market needs.
Applicants are encouraged to collaborate with other sectoral stakeholders and provincial or territorial governments to implement wide-scale industry solutions.
Objective
- Building Talent for the Clean Economy
- Supporting Demand-Driven Solutions for Sectors Hardest Hit by the Pandemic and Those Key to Recovery
- Investing in the Health Care Sector
Priorities
Project proposals may be prioritized according to the following
- To ensure that program objectives in the three policy priority areas are met
- To ensure program results by maximizing targets for training participants, including the participation of equity-deserving groups
- To ensure geographical and sectoral representation
- To support alignment with workforce development needs of other federal departments or agencies
- To support projects that focus on increasing the participation of equity-deserving groups in their sector(s)
Funding Information
- Eligible organizations can apply for funding at a minimum of $5,000,000 and a maximum of $50,000,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Organizations must be one of the following:
- Not-for-profit organization
- For-profit organization
- Municipal government
- Indigenous organization, including:
- band council
- tribal council
- self-government entities
- Provincial or territorial government body such as an:
- institution
- agency
- Crown corporation
For more information, visit https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/services/funding/sectoral-workforce-solutions-economic-recovery.html#h2.02