Social component of sustainable development and its mission for Ukraine in the context of modern global challenges

The paper reveals the role and significance for the sustainable development of the social sphere, which represents its social component. The activities of this sphere are directly aimed at the development of a person, namely: his physical, moral and spiritual qualities, that is, human capital, both individual - in relation to each specific person, and collective - in relation to all members of society. Thus, collective human capital is realized in social capital, which serves as the basis for a developed civil society as a prerequisite for the implementation of all other areas of sustainable development. At the same time, the special role of education is noted and directions for ensuring its proper quality are indicated. Among them, in particular, adherence to such principles of activity for achieving high quality education as systematicity, social conditioning, perspective and anticipatory nature of management, its unity and hierarchy, as well as continuity, cyclicality and dynamism, technologicality, flexibility and optimality. This points to the existence of global threats, such as: natural and climate change and the breakdown of the international security system, the expression of the latter being Russia's armed invasion of Ukraine. The Russian attack has forced several million Ukrainian citizens to flee their country. As a result, there is a threat for Ukraine to lose a significant part of its national human and social capitals. To prevent this, approaches to targeted work with compatriots abroad within the framework of the social component of sustainable development are substantiated. Based on foreign experience, the key role in this is played by the creation of an effectively functioning government institution for working with compatriots abroad. An important function of the institution should be to help solve their socio-economic problems while abroad.