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TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTS SERIES 12864

ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION 

GLOBE Program

Agreement Between the 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

and KENYA

Signed at Nairobi June 9, 1997
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KENYA 

Environmental Cooperation: GLOBE Program 

Agreement signed at Nairobi June 9, 1997; 

Entered into force June 9, 1997.
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1 No record of Appendices in Office of Treaty Affairs’ files. 

AGREEMENT BETWEEN 

THE U. S. NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC 

ADMINISTRATION AND 

THE KENYAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS 

AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION 

IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION 

FOR COOPERATION IN THE GLOBE PROGRAM

PREAMBLE

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States of 

America, acting on behalf of itself and other U.S. Government agencies participating in the GLOBE Program (hereinafter, the U.S. side), and the Ministry of 

Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in conjunction with the Ministry 

of Education (hereinafter, the Kenyan side), 

Intending to increase the awareness of students throughout the world about the 

global environment, 

Seeking to contribute to increased scientific understanding of the Earth, and 

Desiring to support improved student achievement in science and mathematics, 

Have agreed to cooperate in the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit 

the Environment (GLOBE) Program as follows:

ARTICLE 1 - THE GLOBE PROGRAM

The GLOBE Program is an international environmental science and education 

program that will bring students, teachers, and scientists together to study the 

global environment. GLOBE will create an international network of students in 

grades K-12 (or equivalent) studying environmental issues, making environmental measurements, and sharing useful environmental data with the international environmental science community.

ARTICLE 2 - RESPECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES

A. The U.S. side will: 

1. Identify U.S. Schools that will participate in the GLOBE Program 

(details regarding GLOBE schools in Appendix A);1
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2. Select, in consultation with international scientists and educators, the 

GLOBE environmental measurements and types of measurement equipment (described in Appendix B); 

3. Select principal Investigator Teams for the GLOBE environmental 

measurements, and support the U.S. members of the Teams; 

4. Calibrate, if necessary, measurement equipment that cannot be calibrated by GLOBE teachers and students; 

5. Develop, in consultation with international scientists and educators, 

GLOBE educational materials; 

6. Translate GLOBE instructional materials related to measurement procedures and data reporting protocols into the six United Nations languages, and provide these plus all broader GLOBE educational materials to the Kenyan side for further production as necessary; 

7. Conduct annual regional training sessions for GLOBE Country 

Coordinators and GLOBE teachers who will serve as trainers for additional GLOBE teachers in Kenya, and provide a copy of GLOBE 

training materials to the Kenyan side; 

8. Design, develop, operate, and maintain GLOBE data processing 

capabilities and other necessary technology and equipment; 

9. Provide GLOBE software, as necessary, for use on Kenyan GLOBE 

school computers. (To the maximum extent possible, textual material 

appearing on computer screens will be accessible in the student’s 

choice among the six United Nations languages.); 

10. Accept environmental data reported from GLOBE schools around the 

world, and develop and provide resultant global environmental images 

(visualization products) to the Kenyan side; and 

11. Evaluate the overall GLOBE Program periodically, in consultation with 

international GLOBE Country Coordinators, and modify the overall 

program as appropriate. 

B. The Kenyan side will: 

1. Select Kenyan schools to participate in the GLOBE Program (details 

regarding GLOBE schools in Appendix A) and provide an updated list 

of Kenyan GLOBE schools in the U.S. side at the beginning of each 

school year; 

2. Ensure the Kenyan GLOBE schools conduct the fundamental activities 

of GLOBE schools detailed in Appendix A (take GLOBE environ-
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mental measurements, report data, and receive and use resultant global 

environmental images, using GLOBE educational materials under the 

guidance of teachers trained to conduct the GLOBE Program); 

3. Name a Kenyan Government Point of Contact responsible for policylevel communications with the Director of the GLOBE Program; 

4. Name a Country Coordinator responsible for day-to-day management, 

oversight, and facilitation of the GLOBE Program in Kenya; 

5. Ensure that the Country Coordinator and some GLOBE teachers attend 

GLOBE regional training and in turn provide GLOBE training to at 

least one teacher in each Kenyan GLOBE School; 

6. Ensure that GLOBE instructional materials related to measurement 

procedures and data reporting protocols are utilized in Kenyan GLOBE 

schools, and that broader GLOBE educational material are appropriately translated, adapted, reproduced, and distributed to all Kenyan 

GLOBE schools; 

7. Ensure that Kenyan GLOBE schools have the necessary measurement 

equipment to take GLOBE environmental measurements (described in 

Appendix B); 

8. Ensure that teachers and students at Kenyan GLOBE schools calibrate 

GLOBE measurement equipment according to procedures provided in 

GLOBE instructional materials; 

9. Ensure that Kenyan GLOBE schools have the necessary computer and 

communications systems (described in Appendix C) to report GLOBE 

environmental measurements and to receive and use GLOBE visualization products, or make agreed alternative arrangements for such 

reporting and receipt. (At a minimum, the Kenyan Country Coordinator 

will need access to Internet so that all measurement data from Kenyan 

GLOBE schools will be reported via Internet.); and 

10. Evaluate GLOBE operations in Kenya periodically and assist the U.S. 

side in conducting periodic evaluation of the overall GLOBE Program.

ARTICLE 3 - FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS

Each side will bear the costs of fulfilling its respective responsibilities under this 

agreement. Obligations of each side pursuant to this agreement are subject to its 

respective funding procedures and the availability of appropriated funds, per-
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sonnel, and other resources. The conduct of activities under this agreement will 

be consistent with the relevant laws and regulations of the two sides.

ARTICLE 4 - EXCHANGE OF DATA AND GOODS

GLOBE environmental measurement data, visualization products, software, and 

educational materials will be available worldwide without restriction as to their 

use or redistribution.

ARTICLE 5 - RELEASE OF INFORMATION ABOUT

THE GLOBE PROGRAM

Each side may release information on the GLOBE Program as it may deem 

appropriate without prior consultation with the other.

ARTICLE 6 - CUSTOMS AND IMMIGRATION

Each side will, to the extent permitted by its laws and regulations, facilitate the 

movement of persons and goods necessary to implement this agreement into and 

out of its territory and accord entry to such goods into its territory free of customs duties and other similar charges.

ARTICLE 7 - ENTRY INTO FORCE, AMENDMENTS, WITHDRAWAL

This agreement will enter into force upon signature of the two sides and will 

remain in force for five years. It will be automatically extended for further fiveyear periods, unless either side decides to terminate it and so notifies the other 

side with three months written notice. This agreement may be terminated at any 

time by either side upon three months prior written notice to the other side. This 

agreement may be amended by written agreement of the two sides.

Done at Nairobi on the 9th day of June 1997, in duplicate.

For the Minister of Foreign Affairs 

National Oceanic and and International Co-operation 

Atmospheric Administration For the Government of the 

Republic of Kenya

Prudence Bushnell [Signature]