DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE SPHERE OF SOCIAL PROTECTION IN CONDITIONS OF MARTIAL LAW AND POST-WAR RENEWAL OF UKRAINE

The effectiveness of the social protection system in modern Ukraine, the modernization of which in the conditions of war consists in digitalization ‒ the technological development of the provision of digital administrative and social services. The article aims to examine the factors of digitalization of the social protection system of the population under martial law and post-war renewal of Ukraine. Methods of research: theoretical analysis of literature in context of the subject and tasks of the research. It has been proven that the creation of an effective social protection system, the modernization of which in war conditions consists of digitalization ‒ the technological development of the provision of digital administrative and social services, is of particular relevance for Ukraine. It is noted that the current stage of social development is determined by the development of information and communication technologies and causes the reformatting of the traditional social state or welfare state into a digital form of operation, where a developed system of social protection as the main feature of the social state is also gradually acquiring a digital format. Based on the results of the study, the following conclusions were drawn: firstly, among the leading factors for optimizing social protection are: legislative improvement, digitalization of the social sphere, granting greater powers in the provision of social services to territorial communities; secondly, among the leading factors in the development of digitalization of social protection of the population in the post-war period, the following are highlighted: an increase in funding for the digitalization process associated with the costs of restoring infrastructure, the development and implementation of the latest ICT and increasing the digital accessibility of the population on the territory of Ukraine, the introduction of mechanisms and tools for project management in in the field of digitalization of social protection.