Policy communication of Vietnam in the prevention and control of pandemic Covid-19: Roles, requirements and recommendations

Abstract

Policy communication is a system of State proactive and two-way interaction efforts that are purposefully designed to receive and share information about the policy as well as the policy process (how to plan, implementation, evaluation) to policy beneficiaries in order to promote understanding, criticism, consensus, and trust between the State in general and policy actors in particular for the public interest. In the context that the Covid-19 pandemic is taking place very seriously in Vietnam and around the world, the propaganda of the State’s policies on pandemic prevention is very necessary. This study focuses on analyzing the role of policy communication, the requirements placed on policy communication in the prevention and fight against the Covid 19 pandemic, thereby recommending solutions to further promote its role and effectiveness of the policy communication in the next phases.