The 2nd edition of the Black Sea NGO Forum took place in Bucharest, Romania, between 29 – 31 October 2009. The motto of this edition was NGOs in Times of Crisis.  Vugar Bayramov, chairman of Center for Economic and Social Development (CESD), attended the forum as representative of the center. The aim of the Black Sea NGO Forum was to capitalize on the successful initiatives in the region, to learn from what has worked wrong and to create new synergies among capabilities, ideas and projects of NGOs and institutional actors active in the region. The forum aimed to increase the level of dialogue and coordination among NGOs in the wider Black Sea region as well as to strengthen the advocacy capacity of NGOs in the Black Sea region in order to influence development strategies for the region. The Forum had also the ambition to focus on creating a pool of concrete projects and on proposing concrete recommendations for regional NGOs and donors in order to increase the number and quality of regional partnerships and projects.