1. Regional Coordinators Meeting September 28-30, 2009 Washington DC

2.  The ICP 2011 Round will broaden its scope by improving the methodologies that link data between regions.  New approach: the core list items, has been developed by the Global Office (GO) to cover more relevant goods and services.  The core list is an extraction of selected items from the source list that reproduces the same PPPs as the 2005 Round.  This core list should be part of each regional list and will be priced by all countries in all regions and subregions. 2

3. 3 1 kg 2 kg 500 g 1.5 kg Long Round Long Broken Basmati Jasmine Basmati Thai Pre- packed Loose Indrice Brandless Basmati rice pre-packed Round grain rice Basmati rice small bag Broken rice Basmati rice flavoured Paddy1 kgLongBrandless Pre- packed 111.1 111.2 111.3 111.5 111.4 Grain Type Caroline Edit Delete Add

4. Building the Global Core List20092010 JunJulAugSeptOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec (S1) GO builds the draft GC List (M1) GO sends draft GC List to RCs for comments/changes/ additions/deletions (S2) RCs review the draft GC List and propose changes/ additions/deletions (M2) RCs send their comments to the GO (S3) GO analyzes the responses from RCs and revises the GC List (M3) GO sends a revised GC List to RCs (M4) RCs send the revised GC List to their countries and ask them to identify products as Representative/Available/Not Available (S4) Countries identify GC List products as Representative/Available/Not Available (M5) RCs share with GO the answers from the countries (S5) GO finalizes the GC List taking account of comments received from RCs (M6) GO sends final GC List to RCs for inclusion in the Regional core lists and therefore the Regional lists (S6) RCs include GC items in the Regional core lists and therefore the Regional lists 4