National Summative Evaluation of the Gas Tax Fund and Public Transit Fund - Figure 1 - Logic Model - Gas Tax Fund - Text description

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Figure 1 - Logic Model - Gas Tax Fund - Text description

Flow chart shows that Inputs (Resources) lead to Activities lead to Outputs lead to Immediate Outcomes (Direct) lead to Intermediate Outcomes (Indirect) lead to Final Outcome.

The key risk areas are:

  • INFC Capacity
  • Provincial/Territorial/Recipient Capacity
  • Communications
  • Reporting
  • Collaborations

In the box titled Control, INFC is listed as being responsible for:

  • Program Management
  • Negotiation/Collaboration regarding bilateral agreements ("New Deal")
  • Monitoring and reporting
  • Joint communications ("New Deal")

In the box titled Direct Influence, the Supporting Partners (Provinces/Territories (P/T* Initial Recipients) are listed as being responsible for:

  • Constructive negotiation of bilateral agreements
  • Compliance to terms of bilateral P/T agreements
  • Collaborative involvement ("New Deal") transformative partnerships
  • Active promotion, management and monitoring
  • Incremental infrastructure spending
  • Achievement of commitments
    • Increase P/T funding for municipal infrastructure
    • Improve legal/regulatory environment for municipal infrastructure investment
    • Improve efficiency of P/T programs
    • Support for integrated community sustainability plans

In the box titled Contributing Influence, the Ultimate Recipients (Municipalities) are listed as being responsible for:

  • Informed and supportive audiences regarding commitments
  • Collaborative involvement ("New Deal") transformative tripartite partnerships
  • Improved capacity for integrated, sustainable community planning and management
  • Compliance to terms of agreements
    • Integrated community sustainability plan
    • PSAB accounting rules
    • Capital investment plan
  • Successful completion of projects

In the box titled Contributing Influence, User Community / Canadians are listed as being responsible for:

  • Informed and supportive audiences
  • Collaborative involvement
  • Contribution to sustainable municipal infrastructure
    • Improving water quality
    • Improving air quality
    • Decreasing the negative impacts of wastewater effluent on sources of drinking water and aquatic ecosystems
    • Increasing the efficiency of wastewater and storm water collection and treatment systems
    • Reducing the per capita tonnage of solid waste sent to landfill
    • Improving solid waste management
    • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and energy use
    • Increasing capacity of integrated sustainable community planning and management

The three main outcomes are:

  1. Environmentally Sustainable Municipal Infrastructure
    1. Cleaner water
    2. Cleaner air
    3. Lower greenhouse gas emissions
  2. Integrated, sustainable community planning and management
  3. Collaboration-transformative, tripartite partnerships

*While most partners are expected to be provincial and territorial governments, the terms and conditions anticipate the involvement of other organizational entities such as Federation of Canadian Municipalities and First Nations groups.

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