The Sustainable Development Goals in the Context of Formation and Development of Human Capital

Abstract

The article is aimed at considering the sustainable development goals in the context of formation and development of human capital. Based on the analysis of approaches to understanding the category of «human capital» the authors generalize its content. Among the levels of definition of human capital it is necessary to allocate not only personal, level of organizations and national level, but also meso-level. This level is important not only for determining the human capital of region, but also in relation to individual territorial communities, which is essential in the context of the implementation of decentralization reform. This will enable us to use the goals of formation, development, use of human capital in the preparation of planning documents and the formation of reports from individual communities. Based on an analysis of scientific approaches, the understanding of human capital at the State level is closer defined, which should not be equated solely with the financial costs of the spheres of education and health care. In addition, it is not appropriate to measure the formation of human capital through the time spent on education. Given the importance of human capital for ensuring the sustainable development of society, the degree of reflection of the goals and objectives of sustainable development recommended by the UNO and directly related to human capital in the domestic government strategic documents is analyzed. The carried out sample found a partial representation of the objectives detailing the goals of sustainable development and related to education, medicine in the government strategic documents. Aside from that, education and science programs do not have appropriate action plans, are assessed only partially or have no indicators for monitoring and controlling at all.

Keywords

• human capital
• levels of human capital
• sustainable development goals
• education
• health