1. Machinery and Equipment and PPPs ICP Global Office 1st ICP Workshop for the 2011 round in Western Asia Region July 21-22, 2010 - Beirut, Lebanon

2. Background Objectives and approach Methodology and pilot survey The Core List approach Future activities Summary 2 Outlines

3. Overall objectives To achieve a list that will reflect products available in all regions To include representative and identical products across all regions 3 …..principally to propose a better approach to Machinery and Equipment Goods survey…

4. ….conclusion: difficult for analysis and difficult to compare prices…. General specifications - holistic Difficult to price – too vague Skewed towards some BHs List biased towards N. American makes and models Two BHs were omitted 4 The ICP survey: 2005 - 2006 ….Challenges and lesson learnt….

5. ….to learn from the lessons from the past……. To move towards the Eurostat approach To include at least some specific identical and representative products To reflect global markets and products To integrate the products, data collection and analysis To increase market penetration and availability 5 Approach: 2010 – 2011

6. 6 ….and reflect across regions……. A list including all 17 BHs There will be more or less an equally number of products in each BH A combination of specific and generic products and items The core product list ……to aim to select representative and identical products across all BHs…..

7. The core product list: summary 7

8. 8 ….implementation - later in 2010 …. Carry out the pilot survey in two regions To test the overall approach To decide about the efficacy of the proposed method Implementation Then finalise draft core product list Next steps: Pilot survey ….pilot survey is the next stage of the work…..

9. Thank you… 9