The National Democratic Institute (NDI) conducted an assessment of North Macedonia’s crisis management response to the COVID-19 outbreak. A team of experts from North Macedonia and the United States examined the capacities of government institutions in North Macedonia in managing the COVID-19 crisis and provided a number of key recommendations to improve the effectiveness of responding to any future crisis in the country. 

The first segment of the assessment provides an overview of the strategic framework in which the crisis management response system operates and analyzes the existing institutional and legal environment governing crisis management. The second segment is devoted to the work of the parliament and its oversight role related to the measures and decisions adopted by the Government during the pandemic. The final segment examines how much the institutions respected the principles of legitimacy, transparency, and accountability through the lenses of stakeholder consultations, organization of work processes, public procurement procedures, and communication with the public.  

The assessment was conducted with the support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Report design, editing, printing, and translation into Macedonian and Albanian were supported through the Parliament Support Programme, which is funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The views in this report do not necessarily reflect those of NDI, SDC or USAID.