Millennium Challenge Account and UN Women Organization, within the scope of the 16-day campaign dedicated to International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Gender Violence conducted the training course "Gender-equitable learning process" for the National Center for Teacher Professional Development teacher and school director trainers.

The training aimed at strengthening the work on the gender competences and deepening the trainers practice, so that they can more effectively manage the competence development training with their target audience.

The training course has been taken by approximately 40 teacher and school director trainers in December. The trainees are involved in the Millennium Challenge Account - Georgia "Teacher and School Director Professional Development Project", to be implemented by the National Center for Teacher Professional Development in 2016-2019.

The training course has become necessary due to multiple researches carried out by a number of international and local organizations which point out the existence of gender stereotypes established in the learning environment especially pronounced in teaching natural and exact sciences to girls.

There training discussed the issues such as gender discrimination, bias, gender equity and misconception of gender equality, gender differences and similarities, gender socialization and stereotyping.

The acquired knowledge will enable the trainers to work hard to change the gender stereotypes at consciousness and behavior levels.

As the training participants declared, they have gained new skills and attitudes, learned how to carry out a gender-unbiased impartial learning process and learned about the new training techniques that they would use in their professional activities.

Millennium Challenge Account - Georgia "Teacher and School Director Professional Development Project" is being implemented by the LEPL National Center for Teacher Professional Development Center with the financial support of the Millennium Challenge Corporation and in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Georgia.