Evaluation of Belgium’s COVID-19 Responses
Fostering Trust for a More Resilient Society
As countries seek to draw lessons the COVID-19 crisis and increase their future resilience, evaluations are important tools to understand what worked or not, why and for whom. This report builds on the OECD work on “government evaluations of COVID-19 responses”. It evaluates Belgium’s responses to the pandemic in terms of risk preparedness, crisis management, as well as public health, education, economic and fiscal, and social and labour market policies. Preserving the country’s resilience in the future will require promoting trust in public institutions and whole-of-government approaches to crisis management, reducing inequalities, and preserving the fiscal balance. The findings and recommendations of this report will provide guidance to public authorities in these efforts.
Evaluating the responses to the COVID-19 crisis in Belgium
Evaluations allow countries to draw lessons from the COVID-19 crisis in order to strengthen their future resilience. This chapter presents the analytical and methodological framework for the evaluation that forms the basis of this report. It also sets the context by presenting the structural strengths and weaknesses of Belgium that may have impacted the country’s capacity to tackle the crisis. It ends with a brief overview of the crisis timeline and a synthesis of the evaluation’s main findings.
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