In its quest for ensuring excellence and continuous improvement in quality of LMTV projects, the participants of 3^rd GLMTV Conference continued to share among themselves the know-how and experience in facilitating LMTV project. The members through group work, brainstorm and collective deliberation made efforts to develop standards and action plans, establish common systems, tools and methodologies to promote Long/Mid Term volunteers exchange across the world.

As per the schedule on 12th February 2012, the participants deliberated on issues such as common working way (Brainstorming, Case study, Workshop), global minimum standards, ensuring financial transparency, departure and evaluation, issues pertaining to the dynamics of intercultural misunderstanding, pre-departure training, mentoring, conflict management and risk management in facilitating LMTV are the major points of discussion. FSL India being the host organisation actively participated and contributed its part in the thinking process by sharing the best practices in facilitating LMTV programs.

From the public relation point of view which is one of the agenda point, the participants are asked to do a self-evaluation. Each organisation revisited their presentation during the special forum and self-evaluated the good and limitations of their previous presentation. Each organisation had the chance to learn from another. Different strategies and methodologies used by the participant organisations in promoting public relation and advocacy campaign were shared by the participant. Social, print and electronic media, personal appeal, blog, newsletter, network promotion etc. are prominent tools widely practised and shared by the international volunteering organisations. To be more effective in LMTV projects, logical framework approach with SMART indicators can be used for planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the LMTV projects. One must clearly specify overall objectives, input, output/outcome, and effect/impact indicators. Participants also had bilateral talk to shared inforation and collaborative action plan that will be implemented in the days to come.

The agenda for 13^th February are: 1) presentation of promotion plans (group work), non-writing evaluation/impact, evaluation form of hosts/ impact, plenary and evaluation of Global LMTV conference. The participants also tentatively chalked out plan of action for the year 2013. Until the forenoon session the participants deliberated on these issues and visited ACCEPT Society and Sama Foundation as part of exposure visit.