鉴于区域办事处的工作高度受需求驱动，而且严重依赖预算外员额资源，区域办事处可能无法维持目前的支助水平。这种高度受需求驱动和没有上限的工作涉及无限制和范围广泛的支助请求，给规划工作带来困难。各区域办事处使用临时工作人员、借调人员和联合国志愿人员来增加能力，以满足驻地协调员和纽约发展协调办公室的需求。尽管增加了能力，区域办事处在满足支助需求方面仍面临挑战。
Given the highly demand-driven nature of their work and their significant reliance on extrabudgetary post resources, the regional offices may not be able to sustain their current level of support. This highly demand-driven and uncapped work involved open-ended and wide-ranging requests for support that made planning difficult. The regional offices have added capacity to meet demand from resident coordinators and the Development Coordination Office in New York with the use of temporary staff, secondments and United Nations volunteers. Despite having added capacity, the regional offices still experienced challenges with meeting the demand for their support.