The Accredited Regional Development Agencies (ARDAs) in the Republic of Serbia act as a catalyst of local and regional development needs and resources, participate in the implementation of relevant national policies, programs and projects on the territory of their jurisdiction thus representing the bridge for communication and coordination of development policies and programs between the national and local government level in the Republic of Serbia.

The Regional Development Agencies performs the following tasks:

• participates in the preparation and implementation of development documents and monitors their implementation at the regional level and level of local self-government units;
• cooperates with autonomous provinces and local-self-government units in the preparation and implementation of local development plans;
• represents the interest of the region in relations with National Agency and the regional agency and participates in the realization of the adopted development documents within its competence;
• prepares and implements professional development programs for the needs of enterprises and entrepreneurship, development of infrastructure, institutions and organizations for improvement of capacities of local self-government units.
• monitors and implements measures and development projects for which it is authorized;
• preforms international, cross-border and inter-municipal cooperation activities within its jurisdiction;
• leads an information system of importance for the region;
• preforms other tasks in accordance with the founding document.

There are currently 16 Accredited Regional Development Agencies whose major founders are local self-governments and which cover almost the entire territory of the Republic of Serbia.