The purpose of this study wa.s to examine the practices and challenges related to therntraining programs financed by N'GO's and offered to the teachers and WoredarnEducation Officers in Gurage zone. The study adopted the descriptive survey method .rnData were gathered using questionnaires, interviews, and observation of the trainingrnsessions. The sources of the data were trainees, trainers, education program officersrnand some related documents. Samples for the study were selected using simplernrandom sampling techniques. The sample size of the study was 216(54%). Data werernanalyzed using the independent means, t-test, chi-square and percentages. Results ofrnthe data analysis showed that trainees have low level of education compared to thernexpertise needed for teaching at the level they are serving. Moreover the findingsrnclearly indicated that trainees were attending the training programs only because theyrnwere invited to so. Additionally, low level of the practice of need analyses, incompleternsystem of designing the training, passive participation during the delivery of the training,rnnon participatory nature of designing and evaluation of the training programs, andrnfailure to properly use feed backs gathered were some of the major constraintsrnhindering the practice of the training programs. The study suggested that to makerntraining programs strategic, and goal oriented training need assessment, designing therntraining, recruitment of the trainees and trainers, delivery, evaluation and utilization ofrnfeed backs have to be carefully executed by participating responsible stake holders.rnMoreover, the representatives of all the stakeholders of the education programs forrnwhich the training programs have been organized should be made to involve by thernunreserved efforts of the financing NGO's and Woreda Education Officers .