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51-538: Leposavić ( Serbian Cyrillic : Лепосавић , pronounced [lɛ̌pɔsaʋitɕ] ), also known as Leposaviq or Albanik ( Albanian definite form : Leposaviqi or Albaniku ), is a town and the northernmost municipality in the Mitrovica District in Kosovo . As of 2015, it has an estimated population of 18,600 inhabitants. The municipality covers an area of 539 km (208 sq mi) which makes it

102-591: A ISO 9001 quality management system certification in June 2011. UNOPS gained an ISO 14001 certification for its commitment to protecting the environment in 2013. UNOPS reports according to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) sustainability standards. UNOPS has worked with the University of Oxford and UN Environment Programme in a number of collaborations that focus on enhancing

153-808: A 2014 survey, 47% of the Serbian population write in the Latin alphabet whereas 36% write in Cyrillic. The following table provides the upper and lower case forms of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, along with the equivalent forms in the Serbian Latin alphabet and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) value for each letter. The letters do not have names, and consonants are normally pronounced as such when spelling

204-539: A challenge in Unicode modeling, as the glyphs differ only in italic versions, and historically non-italic letters have been used in the same code positions. Serbian professional typography uses fonts specially crafted for the language to overcome the problem, but texts printed from common computers contain East Slavic rather than Serbian italic glyphs. Cyrillic fonts from Adobe, Microsoft (Windows Vista and later) and

255-457: A few other font houses include the Serbian variations (both regular and italic). If the underlying font and Web technology provides support, the proper glyphs can be obtained by marking the text with appropriate language codes. Thus, in non-italic mode: whereas: Since Unicode unifies different glyphs in same characters, font support must be present to display the correct variant. The standard Serbian keyboard layout for personal computers

306-514: Is as follows: United Nations Office for Project Services The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is a United Nations agency dedicated to implementing humanitarian and development projects for the United Nations System , international financial institutions, governments and other partners around the world, with a focus on infrastructure, procurement and project management The organization's global headquarters

357-880: Is located at the UN City campus in Copenhagen , Denmark . UNOPS delivers around  $ 3 billion worth of development projects for its partners every year. Its activities have ranged from managing the construction of schools in Afghanistan, to building shelters in Haiti, to procuring ambulances to support the Ebola response in Liberia. UNOPS is a member of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board and Senior Management Group,

408-636: Is necessary (or followed by a short schwa , e.g. /fə/).: Summary tables According to tradition, Glagolitic was invented by the Byzantine Christian missionaries and brothers Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 860s, amid the Christianization of the Slavs . Glagolitic alphabet appears to be older, predating the introduction of Christianity, only formalized by Cyril and expanded to cover non-Greek sounds. The Glagolitic alphabet

459-537: Is the legal and administrative host for several organizations. The following entities are currently under hosting agreements by UNOPS, grouped by theme: In addition, UNOPS also managers several multi-stakeholder partnerships and initiatives, including: UNOPS was involved in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023 during COP28, UNOPS and the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, were selected to co-host

510-477: Is the only one in official use. The ligatures : were developed specially for the Serbian alphabet. Serbian Cyrillic does not use several letters encountered in other Slavic Cyrillic alphabets. It does not use hard sign ( ъ ) and soft sign ( ь ), particularly due to a lack of distinction between iotated consonants and non-iotated consonants, but the aforementioned soft-sign ligatures instead. It does not have Russian/Belarusian Э , Ukrainian/Belarusian І ,

561-641: The European Union , and the government of the United States . UNOPS was established in 1973 as part of the UNDP . It became an independent, self-financing organization in 1995. UNOPS concentrates its support in the areas of infrastructure, procurement, project management, human resources and financial management services. UNOPS often works in post-disaster and peace and security settings, developing countries and economies in transition. In December 2010,

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612-515: The Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia banned the use of Cyrillic, having regulated it on 25 April 1941, and in June 1941 began eliminating " Eastern " (Serbian) words from Croatian, and shut down Serbian schools. The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet was used as a basis for the Macedonian alphabet with the work of Krste Misirkov and Venko Markovski . The Serbian Cyrillic script was one of

663-760: The United Nations General Assembly reaffirmed the mandate of UNOPS "as a central resource for the UN system in procurement and contracts management as well as in civil works and physical infrastructure development, including the related capacity development activities". Examples of such works include building roads, schools, and health clinics; removing landmines ; and providing expertise for holding elections. A new headquarters of UNOPS opened in Copenhagen in May 2009. Today, UNOPS delivers around $ 3 billion worth of projects in more than 80 nations across

714-819: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) . UNOPS is also accountable to the UN Board of Auditors who audit UNOPS on an annual basis. In September 2011, UNOPS joined the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) , becoming the first UN body to publish operational data in the IATI format in October of the same year. IATI seeks to make information on aid spending easier to access, understand, and use. UNOPS, along with other prominent organizations such as

765-495: The djerv (Ꙉꙉ) for the Serbian reflexes of Pre-Slavic *tj and *dj (* t͡ɕ , * d͡ʑ , * d͡ʒ , and * tɕ ), later the letter evolved to dje (Ђђ) and tshe (Ћћ) letters . Vuk Stefanović Karadžić fled Serbia during the Serbian Revolution in 1813, to Vienna. There he met Jernej Kopitar , a linguist with interest in slavistics. Kopitar and Sava Mrkalj helped Vuk to reform Serbian and its orthography. He finalized

816-642: The "Sustainable Investments in Infrastructure and Innovation", or S3i for short, millions of US dollars worth of donor money was given to contractors that had repeatedly failed to work on the projects they were given. The UN is expected to have to write down over $ 25 million in bad loans. Faremo's deputy Vitaly Vanshelboim was placed on executive leave in December 2021 as the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services investigated

867-557: The 3 and 13 October 1914 banned the use of Serbian Cyrillic in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia , limiting it for use in religious instruction. A decree was passed on January 3, 1915, that banned Serbian Cyrillic completely from public use. An imperial order on October 25, 1915, banned the use of Serbian Cyrillic in the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina , except "within the scope of Serbian Orthodox Church authorities". In 1941,

918-656: The Development Agenda 2006 – 2009, in cooperation with United Nations Office for Project Services and with the support of UNMIK and the Italian Government, which foresees improvement in the local economy. However, with the current difficult situation, there is not much hope that the agenda will be properly implemented. The municipality, led by a very proactive chief executive officer, pays noteworthy efforts toward identifying and initiating projects ideas. There are three lead and zinc mines operating on

969-893: The Environment Management Group (EMG), the United Nations Sustainable Development Group and works closely with UN partners, governments, international financial institutions and multilateral development banks, such as: the World Bank , the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria , United Nations Department of Peace Operations , Government of Argentina , the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) ,

1020-666: The Gates Foundation, the World Bank, and the European Commission, contributes to this initiative by providing detailed, machine-readable data on their projects. Project-level information, including financial transactions, is published monthly to the IATI Registry by UNOPS. UNOPS also maintains an online platform, data.unops.org , which enhances the transparency of UNOPS operations. UNOPS attained

1071-513: The Latin alphabet, in use in western South Slavic areas, using the same principles. As a result of this joint effort, Serbian Cyrillic and Gaj's Latin alphabets have a complete one-to-one congruence, with the Latin digraphs Lj, Nj, and Dž counting as single letters. The updated Serbian Cyrillic alphabet was officially adopted in the Principality of Serbia in 1868, and was in exclusive use in

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1122-645: The Latin script is almost always used in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina , whereas Cyrillic is in everyday use in Republika Srpska . The Serbian language in Croatia is officially recognized as a minority language; however, the use of Cyrillic in bilingual signs has sparked protests and vandalism . Serbian Cyrillic is an important symbol of Serbian identity. In Serbia, official documents are printed in Cyrillic only even though, according to

1173-628: The Leposavić municipality in 1953. In the mid–1950s, the Assembly of PR Serbia decided that the Leposavić municipality be ceded to Autonomous Region of Kosovo and Metohija , after requests by the Kosovo leadership. It had up until then been part of the Kraljevo srez , of which the population was wholly Serb. After this, the number of Serbs drastically fell. In 1959, Leposavić was incorporated into

1224-587: The Secretary-General on 9 May 2022. Wandel had served the UN in many different capacities over a long career, most recently as the Secretary-General's designate for the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund. Previously, he served as special adviser to the Secretary-General on UN Reforms and before that he was Director of UNDP's Bureau for Management Services. He was tasked with correcting the failures surrounding UNOPS S3i initiative and reforming

1275-655: The UN High-Level Committee on Management's Procurement Network. This recognition highlights UNOPS' commitment to sustainable procurement practices that support social and economic development while protecting the environment. In 2014, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon appointed Grete Faremo as head of UNOPS. Her appointment led to a change in direction for the organization. Between 2014 and 2021 its portfolio of projects expanded from $ 1.14 billion to more than $ 3.4 billion. She bragged about how she immediately saw to it that "more than 1,200 pages of rules went into

1326-669: The United Nations, its agencies, funds and programmes; international financial institutions; governments; intergovernmental organizations; non-governmental organizations; foundations; and the private sector. In 2023, UNOPS created more than 23 million days of paid work for beneficiaries. The organization supported its partners with the construction, design and/or rehabilitation of more than 187 kilometers of roads, 55 schools, and 7 hospitals and 49 health clinics, among others. UNOPS also procured and/or distributed more than US$ 1.6 billion worth of goods and services for its partners. UNOPS

1377-421: The allegations and audited the matter. Vanshelboim was later sacked in early 2023. Faremo resigned in early May 2022 after an investigation by The New York Times drew attention to the problems under Faremo's tenure. International development news publication, Devex and blogger, Mukesh Kapila , also wrote a series of articles on the matter. Jens Wandel was appointed acting executive director of UNOPS by

1428-576: The alphabet in 1818 with the Serbian Dictionary . Karadžić reformed standard Serbian and standardised the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet by following strict phonemic principles on the Johann Christoph Adelung ' model and Jan Hus ' Czech alphabet . Karadžić's reforms of standard Serbian modernised it and distanced it from Serbian and Russian Church Slavonic , instead bringing it closer to common folk speech, specifically, to

1479-555: The country up to the interwar period . Both alphabets were official in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and later in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia . Due to the shared cultural area, Gaj's Latin alphabet saw a gradual adoption in the Socialist Republic of Serbia since, and both scripts are used to write modern standard Serbian. In Serbia , Cyrillic is seen as being more traditional, and has

1530-615: The dialect of Eastern Herzegovina which he spoke. Karadžić was, together with Đuro Daničić , the main Serbian signatory to the Vienna Literary Agreement of 1850 which, encouraged by Austrian authorities, laid the foundation for Serbian, various forms of which are used by Serbs in Serbia , Montenegro , Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia today. Karadžić also translated the New Testament into Serbian, which

1581-594: The executive director reports directly to the UN Secretary-General and the Executive Board, and has the authority to apply United Nations staff rules and regulations to UNOPS staff. Since 2009 the executive director has been able to sign host country agreements with governments. UNOPS is accountable to member states of the United Nations through its Executive Board, which it shares with the UNDP and

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1632-652: The fifth largest in Kosovo, and consists of the town and 72 villages. It is a part of North Kosovo , a region with an ethnic Serb majority that functions largely autonomously from the remainder of ethnic Albanian -majority Kosovo. As per the 2013 Brussels Agreement , the municipality is expected to become part of the Community of Serb Municipalities . Although historically known as Leposavić in Serbian and Leposaviq in Albanian and being an area of Serbian settlement,

1683-557: The integration of nature-based solutions, which can tackle a broad spectrum of sustainable development challenges while mitigating the impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss , and pollution. In 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 UNOPS achieved gold level in sustainable procurement from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply. In 2022, the UNOPS was presented with the annual Sustainable Procurement and Supply Award by

1734-467: The municipality of Leposavić, including IDPs : Almost all industrial facilities are closed or work with reduced capacity. The unemployment rate is also high, and it has been considerably increased due to the closing down of most of the Trepča conglomerate facilities. The municipality is rich in natural, infrastructure and management, but current circumstances blocked all the potentials. The municipality adopted

1785-462: The newly created Office of Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza. Led by Sigrid Kaag , the office was created in response to the Israel-Hamas war in an effort to accelerate humanitarian relief consignments to Gaza through States which are not party to the conflict.   In 2008, UNOPS adopted a governance structure in line with General Assembly resolutions. Since then,

1836-509: The official status (designated in the constitution as the " official script ", compared to Latin's status of "script in official use" designated by a lower-level act, for national minorities). It is also an official script in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro , along with Gaj's Latin alphabet . Serbian Cyrillic is in official use in Serbia , Montenegro , and Bosnia and Herzegovina . Although Bosnia "officially accept[s] both alphabets",

1887-450: The population of Leposavić municipality stands at 18,600 inhabitants. The municipality of Leposavić includes the town and 72 villages. The majority of Leposavić municipality is composed of Kosovo Serbs with around 18,000 inhabitants (96.4%), while 350 Bosniaks and 270 Kosovo Albanians live in the municipality. Kosovo Albanians live in the three southern villages of Bistrica e Shalës , Cerajë , and Koshutova. The ethnic composition of

1938-408: The previous 18th century Slavonic-Serbian script, following the principle of "write as you speak and read as it is written", removing obsolete letters and letters representing iotated vowels , introducing ⟨J⟩ from the Latin alphabet instead, and adding several consonant letters for sounds specific to Serbian phonology . During the same period, linguists led by Ljudevit Gaj adapted

1989-672: The province. After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia , the political group Pokret za Leposavić ("Movement for Leposavić") was established, which sought to bring together those committed to cooperation and communication with the international community and the Albanians. Aside from the town of Leposavić, the municipality includes the following villages: According to the 2011 estimations by the Government of Kosovo , Leposavić has 4,193 households and 13,773 inhabitants. In 2015 report by OSCE ,

2040-517: The secretariat for the Santiago Network for Loss and Damage. The Santiago Network, established to address climate change impacts in developing countries, acts as a crucial connector between technical assistance and the Loss & Damage Fund, enhancing the capacity of these countries to manage climate-related losses and damages. In 2024, the Secretary-General appointed UNOPS to operationalise

2091-768: The semi-vowels Й or Ў , nor the iotated letters Я (Russian/Bulgarian ya ), Є (Ukrainian ye ), Ї ( yi ), Ё (Russian yo ) or Ю ( yu ), which are instead written as two separate letters: Ја, Је, Ји, Јо, Ју . Ј can also be used as a semi-vowel, in place of й . The letter Щ is not used. When necessary, it is transliterated as either ШЧ , ШЋ or ШТ . Serbian italic and cursive forms of lowercase letters б , г , д , п , and т (Russian Cyrillic alphabet) differ from those used in other Cyrillic alphabets: б , г , д , п , and т (Serbian Cyrillic alphabet). The regular (upright) shapes are generally standardized among languages and there are no officially recognized variations. That presents

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2142-437: The sustainability of infrastructure. This includes the report Infrastructure for Climate Action. The report highlights the substantial role of infrastructure in generating greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation costs, accounting for 79% and 88% respectively. The report advocates for fundamental shifts in the planning, delivery, and management of infrastructure to align with critical climate and development targets. It emphasizes

2193-525: The territory of Leposavić: Belo Brdo , Crepulje and Crnac . The NGO Caritas Kosovo maintains a regional office in Leposavić. The municipality has several monuments protected by the Republic of Serbia as part of the cultural heritage list . The following Serbian Orthodox churches are located in Leposavić: Serbian Cyrillic alphabet Reformed Serbian based its alphabet on

2244-606: The town has been referred to as Albanik on some maps produced by KFOR since Kosovo's declaration of independence . Albanik is preferred over Leposaviq in Kosovar governmental documents translated into English. From 1877 to 1913 Leposavić was part of Kosovo vilayet . Leposavić, then a village, was the scene of fighting during the Serbian–Turkish Wars from 1876-1878. After the First Balkan War (1912), Kosovo

2295-437: The trash" and that she would "rewrite (its) operational principles" in the name of running UNOPS more like a fast and agile business. Under her tenure, UNOPS shed its former reputation as an invisible go-between meant to ease contracting. UNOPS found itself with a surplus of funds it could use for itself. However, Faremo was accused of managing the money incompetently at best, and corruptly at worst. As part of an initiative called

2346-598: The two official scripts used to write Serbo-Croatian in Yugoslavia since its establishment in 1918, the other being Gaj's Latin alphabet ( latinica ). Following the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, Serbian Cyrillic is no longer used in Croatia on national level, while in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro it remained an official script. Under the Constitution of Serbia of 2006, Cyrillic script

2397-419: The world. UNOPS is a self-financing organization. It covers direct and indirect costs by charging a fee on each project supported. UNOPS pricing policy outlines how the organization aims to finance its projects. UNOPS is not-for-profit. UNOPS offers implementation, advisory and transactional services in its five core areas of expertise: UNOPS provides specialized services to a range of partners, including:

2448-399: Was based on the Slavic dialect of Thessaloniki . Part of the Serbian literary heritage of the Middle Ages are works such as Miroslav Gospel , Vukan Gospels , St. Sava's Nomocanon , Dušan's Code , Munich Serbian Psalter , and others. The first printed book in Serbian was the Cetinje Octoechos (1494). It's notable extensive use of diacritical signs by the Resava dialect and use of

2499-446: Was gradually superseded in later centuries by the Cyrillic script, developed around by Cyril's disciples, perhaps at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th century. The earliest form of Cyrillic was the ustav , based on Greek uncial script, augmented by ligatures and letters from the Glagolitic alphabet for consonants not found in Greek. There was no distinction between capital and lowercase letters. The standard language

2550-428: Was internationally recognised as a part of Serbia and northern Metohija as a part of Montenegro at the Treaty of London in May 1913. In 1918, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , later named Yugoslavia was established by the merging of the Western South Slavic states. Between 1929 and 1941, the region was administratively part of the Zeta Banovina . Lešak, Belo Brdo, Vračevo, Berberište were incorporated into

2601-523: Was published in 1868. He wrote several books; Mala prostonarodna slaveno-serbska pesnarica and Pismenica serbskoga jezika in 1814, and two more in 1815 and 1818, all with the alphabet still in progress. In his letters from 1815 to 1818 he used: Ю, Я, Ы and Ѳ. In his 1815 song book he dropped the Ѣ. The alphabet was officially adopted in 1868, four years after his death. From the Old Slavic script Vuk retained these 24 letters: He added one Latin letter: And 5 new ones: He removed: Orders issued on

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