(a) 区域协作平台。五个区域协作平台提供总体区域协调，每个平台都由常务副秘书长担任主席，区域委员会执行秘书和联合国开发计划署(开发署)区域主任担任副主席。每个平台的成员包括联合国各实体的区域主任。区域办事处是平台的正式成员，并作为与开发署和区域委员会的三方秘书处的一部分提供秘书处职能；不过，发展协调办公室的秘书处作用在各个区域的重要程度不同。在每个平台中，专题联盟(在非洲是机会和专题联盟)是由联合国实体组成的响应国家需求、针对具体区域的有时限的联盟。区域业务管理小组也是平台的一部分；
(a) Regional collaborative platforms. The five regional collaborative platforms provide overall regional coordination and are each chaired by the Deputy Secretary-General , with the Executive Secretaries of the regional commissions and the Regional Directors of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) acting as Vice-Chairs. The membership of each platform comprises the regional directors of United Nations entities. The regional offices are full members of the platforms and provide secretariat functions as part of the tripartite secretariat with UNDP and the regional commissions, though the prominence of the secretariat role of the Development Coordination Office varies across regions. In each platform, issue-based coalitions (or opportunity- and issue-based coalitions in Africa) are region-specific, time-bound coalitions of United Nations entities responding to country needs. The regional operations management team is also part of the platform;