In accordance with the President’s Executive Order on Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid and additional direction provided by the Department of State, USAID is pausing all new obligations of funding, and sub-obligations of funding under Development Objective Agreements (DOAGs), pending a review of foreign assistance programs funded by USAID. For the purposes of the E.O. and this guidance, foreign assistance includes all program accounts (“Title III”) but excludes Operating Expenses and the Capital Investment Fund Account (“Title II”). The pause applies to applicable funding under all award instruments. SEE BELOW