On 14-15 March 2009 Civil Society Development Centre and Civil Society Institute
organized the Armenian- Turkish NGO Forum in Yerevan, Armenia. The meeting
brought together about fourty NGO activists from different thematic areas.
During two days of conference they discussed concrete means to establish civil
dialogue between Armenia and Turkey.

The event was organized by Civil Society Development Centre (STGM) in
collaboration with Civil Society Institute (Armenia) with the support of British
Embassy in Turkey.

The aim of this event was to establish dialogue and coordination among NGOs from
Armenia and Turkey as well as to strengthen the advocacy capacity of NGOs in
both countries in order to influence strategies about common problematic areas
in the region. The forum focused on creating a pool of concrete project ideas
and on determining strategies in order to increase the number of partnerships
and projects.

There were 20 participants from each country attended the meeting in different
thematic areas of civil society which are: Gender, youth, democracy and rule of
law, environment. Please find attached the list of participants and agenda.