The Regional Development Plan (RDP) is the region's strategic planning document, prepared in a broad partnership that aims to guide and stimulate economic and social development at regional level.

The RDP is a comprehensive document analyzing, identifying and formulating:
- The current social and economic situation
- Weak points and threats the region faces
- Strong points capable to support the region and opportunities that can be capitalized
- The Development Strategy
- the financial planning of the measures included in the strategy.

The 2007-2013 Bucharest-Ilfov Regional Development Plan was approved in May 2006. The plan was drafted by the Bucharest-Ilfov Regional Development Agency with the support of its Structural Funds regional partners with the observance of the provisions of GD 115 of 2004.

This document is the result of a process that the Bucharest-Ilfov RDA started in 2005 and, besides the work of the BI RDA experts and the experts of the Lazio region twinning project, it involved collecting and processing a large volume of information and proposals by partners of the working groups consulted by the Agency in various stages of the process.