In terms of the role of the GBARs, they form a community of practice of sorts within the department. They provide advice and guidance to the sector leads in developing policies. As to whether they're champions or not, they are champions in their own right, but we do not have an overarching departmental champion at this point in time for gender-based analysis.
In the early days, while we were establishing our program, yes, we did have a champion, but we also found that by taking a centralized approach, and having one unit and one champion, it provided a disincentive toward the incorporation of it into the culture of the department. By embedding it into the programs, and driving accountability into the programs and sectors, we've built in a mechanism to ensure every initiative has a GBA lens to it.