The NSDS provides a plan for the achievement of vision and objectives on different political levels and in a coordinated manner. The NSDS contains a chapter on regional and local aspects of sustainable development which places an emphasis on the significance of system decentralization, higher degree of regionalization and promotion of local sustainable development management.

The Local Sustainable Development Strategy was adopted before the NSDS of Serbia and concrete mechanisms for coordination of NSDS implementation on the local and vertical integration level will be defined through the Action Plan that is currently being developed.