aps amendment 3 19 march 2015.docx

Date: March 19, 2015

Subject: Amendment No. 3 to APS-ASHA-15-000001 for Office of American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) Fiscal Year 2015 Program

Background and Purpose of this Amendment

The subject Annual Program Statement (APS) was issued on October 27, 2014, and Amendment No. 1 was issued on December 31, 2014. Amendment No. 2 was issued on March 11, 2015. The purpose of this Amendment No. 3 is to revise text in the Full Announcement, as follows:

Section C.1.c, Eligibility Information, Eligible Applications, first sentence is deleted and replaced with the following:

“c) The OSI must not be under the control or management of a government (including a local, regional, or national government) or any of its agencies and must not be a Public International Organization (PIO) as defined in ADS 308 (http://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/documents/1868/308.pdf) or any organizational sub-unit of a PIO.”

Section C.3, Eligibility Information, Other Eligibility Requirements: add paragraph f):

“f) Given the availability of other international, national, and U.S. government resources for efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, the ASHA program will not consider funding any projects whose primary focus is to support such efforts.”

All other terms and conditions remain unchanged.