Evaluation of Luxembourg's COVID-19 Response
Learning from the Crisis to Increase Resilience
As countries seek to learn from the COVID-19 crisis and increase their resilience for the future, evaluations are important tools to understand what worked or not, why and for whom. This report is the first of its kind. It evaluates Luxembourg’s responses to the COVID-19 crisis in terms of risk preparedness, crisis management, as well as public health, education, economic and fiscal, and social and labour market policies. While Luxembourg’s response to the pandemic has been particularly agile, preserving the country’s resilience will require maintaining high levels of trust in government, reducing inequalities, and laying the foundations for inclusive growth. The findings and recommendations of this report will provide guidance to public authorities in these efforts.
Also available in: French
The management of the COVID-19 crisis in Luxembourg
Managing modern and complex crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, requires governments to mobilise a number of actors beyond the traditional emergency services, and to create a climate of trust in public action, which is essential to ensure its effectiveness. This chapter assesses the extent to which the mechanisms put in place in Luxembourg have enabled the government to adopt a co-ordinated and agile approach to responding to the pandemic across its different agencies. It then examines the effectiveness of the government’s crisis communications towards citizens, in terms of both the relevance and the coherence of its messaging. Finally, the chapter looks at the measures adopted by the Luxembourg government to deploy a co-ordinated response across society as a whole.
Also available in: French
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