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ICP 2011 Round Western Asia Region Giovanni Savio, UN-ESCWA Majed Skaini, UN-ESCWA

ICP 2011 Round Western Asia Region Giovanni Savio, UN-ESCWA Majed Skaini, UN-ESCWA ICP – Regional Coordinators’ Meeting Washington D.C., 28-30 September 2009. ICP 2005 Experience In Western Asia. ICP 2005 Participated Countries. ICP Governance Structure. ICP Council. TAG.

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ICP 2011 Round Western Asia Region Giovanni Savio, UN-ESCWA Majed Skaini, UN-ESCWA

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  1. ICP 2011 Round Western Asia Region Giovanni Savio, UN-ESCWA Majed Skaini, UN-ESCWA ICP – Regional Coordinators’ Meeting Washington D.C., 28-30 September 2009

  2. ICP 2005 Experience In Western Asia

  3. ICP 2005Participated Countries

  4. ICP Governance Structure ICP Council TAG ICP Executive Board ICP Global Office ESCWA RegionalCommittee National Implementing Agencies

  5. In WA established a regional organizational structure well managed by the ICP Regional Office (RO) at ESCWA Setting a structural linkage between all NSOs and the RO A successful example that has been resembled and looked at as guidance for other global projects (i.e. SNA 2008) Organizational Structure

  6. Structured Product Descriptions (SPDs) were used to derive a product list of around 1400 items under 155 basic headings Successive to several meetings, data collection and validation sessions, the product list finally constituted of 1068 items under 155 basic headings Countries were required to price a minimum number of products in each of the basic heading classifications; the higher the dispersion of prices around the average, the greater the number of products to be priced Product List

  7. Good training of ICP data surveyors and special focus on following detailed SPD description National editing/validation of data using ICP Toolpack Regional office day-to-day follow up, regular inspection of outliers and data cleaning Quaranta Diagnostic reports and Dickanov table Consultant’s visits to countries for guidance on data collection, treatment of outliers, data validation, and check up of price data collection through random field visits with surveyors Regular regional sessions for data validation and cleaning and corresponding editing of the regional product list Results’ Validation

  8. 11 Regional workshops on training, detailed SPDs, data collection, ICP Toolpack, data validation, Expenditure weights and National Accounts, computation of results, etc. 2 Regional meetings one introducing the ICP at the very beginning and one for discussion and approval of the final output at the very end 4 meetings of the Regional Executive Board (Regional Committee) following up on the progress of work and program implementation, evaluation of workshops and several recommendations for incorporating the ICP under core national regular work program Regional Meetings

  9. Consultant sent to some member countries for providing guidance and supporting the national teams in improving the quality of data collected Technical expert sent to some member countries for providing support on the use of ICP Toolpack Regular day-to-day follow up by the regional office, and coordination with the ICP Global Office to provide countries with necessary solutions or PCM/PAM patches through email correspondences Experts’ Help

  10. Uses of the 2005 ICP data and ICP Updates

  11. ICP provided some countries an opportunity to extend price collection of goods and services all over the country. This made a huge difference as the CPI price collection was limited only to the capital and its nearby suburbs  ICP provided a platform for some countries to refine their methods of defining specifications of goods and services in the CPI  The ICP Tool Pack software was a great help for managing data storage. It also offered options for data comparison at several levels and provided a speedy tool to manage the field work and to correct outliers  ICP has given substantial attention to capacity-building in the national statistical offices in the fields of price statistics and national accounts However, still scarce use of final data, few requests of data from the region and outside: no updating and new surveys User Benefits

  12. Regional Report, ‘Comparison of Economic Outputs and Purchasing Power of Currencies-Western Asia’, published and disseminated by the closing of the 2005 ICP round Publication

  13. Preparation for the 2011 Round

  14. Preparation started with last meeting of previous Round (Manama, mid-2007) Participation in two interim meetings Final approval in the ESCWA WP 2010-2011 by the SC (October 2008) Preparatory meeting with WB and IDB in July 2009, other meeting with IDB in June 2009 Notification to MCs early September 2009 Positive replies received from MCs Funds available from previous Round Various aspects

  15. ICP 2011Participating Countries

  16. Thank you

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