<P> Several USAID employees in the field mission, both U.S. and host - country staff, devote time to such a project . They collaborate with local leaders to design USAID's assistance and then they oversee the assistance as it is being provided . </P> <P> A USAID project officer is usually directly responsible for the assistance, with support from the Mission's offices for program evaluation and reporting, contracting, and financial management . Most USAID project officers support two or three projects, and the time of staff in support offices is also divided across several assistance projects . Their combined time dedicated to a single assistance project might add up to between one and two "full - time equivalent" staff, which is considerably less than the number of technical - assistance personnel that they monitor, and tiny compared to the country's own level of effort for the project . </P> <P> Part of the reason for wanting to rebuild USAID's Foreign Service staffing has been to allow field missions to dedicate more people to supporting the development assistance they provide . </P> <P> While USAID can have as little presence in a country as a single person assigned to the U.S. Embassy, a full USAID mission in a larger country may have twenty or more USAID Foreign Service Officers and a hundred or more professional and administrative employees from the country itself . </P>

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