ABSTRACT

COVID-19 is not merely a global health crisis, but a comprehensive socio-economic disaster worldwide due to its multidimensional impacts and wide-range consequences for most countries. As a middle-income country in Southeast Asia, Vietnam has been suffering from the multifaceted consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and has made the most significant effort to respond. In response to challenges caused by Covid 19, Vietnam has been trying to introduce social protection policies to support the COVID-19 affected groups. The study conducted 58 in-depth interviews with different representatives from policymakers, policy implementors at different levels, and beneficiaries (the poor, persons with disabilities, informal/freelance workers and so on) to draws a picture of the pandemic impacts via the voices of different stakeholders. It then describes how the government and community’ social protection policies are responding to manage the pandemic and its multidimensional impacts. The paper highlights and discusses the lessons from Vietnamese experiences.

摘要

COVID-19 不仅是一场全球健康危机，而且由于其对大多数国家的多维影响和广泛后果，它是全球范围内的综合性社会经济灾难。作为东南亚的中等收入国家，越南一直遭受着 COVID-19 大流行的多方面后果，并做出了最大的努力来应对。为了应对 Covid 19 带来的挑战，越南一直在努力出台社会保护政策以支持受 COVID-19 影响的群体。该研究对政策制定者、各级政策实施者和受益者（穷人、残疾人、非正规/自由职业者等）的不同代表进行了 58 次深入访谈，以通过人们的声音描绘大流行病的影响不同的利益相关者。然后描述了政府和社区的社会保护政策如何应对以管理这一流行病及其多方面影响。本文重点介绍并讨论了越南的经验教训。