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  functional specialty team provides advice and guidance access to additional resources to augment the nationwide
  network of indigenous civil authorities to promote oversight and assessing, advising, improving, or establishing
  legislative and executive institutions from national to local levels; and the processes of these institutions in the
  administration of governance. Considerations for the public administration functional specialty include political
  parties, eligibility for franchise, elections, tenure, civil servant service, policy and programming, and all other
  aspects of the development and operation of the apparatus of government. These activities enable the
  interconnectivity of individuals, civil society, and institutions to produce coordinated, integrated, and
  synchronized efforts toward stability. These efforts have inherent crosscutting effects upon, and requirements
  of, the other functional areas. This functional specialty team is prepared to assume the administrative and
  supervisory roles of the national and subnational institutions, as required by conditions of the OE.
  PUBLIC INFORMATION
  B-15. The public information functional specialty places emphasis on the ability of the indigenous government
  to be transparent, accountable, informative, and effective in communicating to the citizenry. Application of the
  technical expertise of this functional specialty team delivers assessments, analysis, and evaluation that permits
  this team to provide advice and guidance access to additional resources. This augmentation to indigenous
  institutions enhances the capability of those institutions to conduct assessments, implement oversight, provide
  policies and programs, and operate public information systems and agencies from national to local levels.
  B-16. This enhanced capability provides for the structuring, resourcing, organizing, rehabilitation, and
  implementation of the curriculum, facilities, processes, and personnel required to develop and execute public
  relations and information dissemination activities. These activities include support to the political and
  electoral processes, emergency management actions, societal participation in issues, respect of dissenting
  views, independence of private and international media, communication of policy and development
  objectives, and the provision of equitable accessibility by individuals, institutions and the private sector.
  Public information efforts have inherent crosscutting effects upon, and requirements of, the other functional
  areas. This functional specialty team is prepared to assume the administrative and supervisory roles of the
  national and subnational institutions, as required by conditions of the OE.
  CULTURAL RELATIONS
  B-17. The cultural relations functional specialty places emphasis on the stewardship of the social and cultural
  resources, official public records, and archives of the state. This functional specialty also places emphasis on
  the educated expertise, and the focused understanding of traditional culture, customs, and arts of an area of a
  nation, or region. Application of the technical expertise of this functional specialty team delivers assessments
  and analysis, which allow for the provision of advice, guidance, and access to additional resources. This
  augmentation to indigenous institutions enhances the capability of those institutions to conduct assessments,
  implement oversight, provide and regulate policies and programs, and operate institutional systems and
  agencies at national to local levels.
  B-18. This enhanced capability provides for the structuring, resourcing, organizing, rehabilitation, and
  implementation of the curriculum, facilities, processes, and personnel development required to implement and
  sustain the activities for the administration of public records, archives, and cultural assets. These activities
  ensure the authenticity, safe-guarding, preservation and restoration, cataloging and accounting, accessibility,
  and transparency of public documents, heritage, and properties. With consideration toward equitable
  accessibility by individuals, institutions, and the private sector, these activities position communities for
  reestablishment of stability. These efforts have inherent crosscutting effects upon, and requirements of, the other
  functional areas. This functional specialty team is prepared to assume administrative and supervisory roles of
  the national and subnational institutions, as required by conditions of the OE.
  ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
  B-19. The environmental management functional specialty places emphasis on the principles of protection and
  conservation of the natural resources and mitigation of hazards or pollution as it concerns the state, while
  fostering supportable access, development, and utilization. Through the application of technical skills,
  functional specialists advise and assist in rehabilitating, establishing, delivering, and maintaining government
  environmental management agencies and systems and their associated requisite plans, policies, and procedures