NIOS in collaboration with Commonwealth of Learning (COL) has launched a teacher training project in the area of Gender and Environment. The Gender Green Teacher’ (GGT) is an ICT enabled, in-service professional development training course for school functionaries with the broad aim of sensitising the teachers to integrate and mainstream gender and environment content in the teaching-learning process.

The programme is a mix of theory and practice. Besides providing theoretical knowledge on gender and sustainable development, the course develops teachers’ skills for workshop-based activities and Practice Teaching based on action. The aim is to sensitise the learners on gender and environment and build their capacity to address the concerns.

This Course is being offered so as to enable more and more teachers to build in competencies in gender and environment. Teacher's success would contribute to students' learning emphasising on proficiency in competencies supported learning outcomes.