The New Asian-African Strategic Partnership (NAASP) was adopted in Bandung, Indonesia, by the head of States/Governments of 107 Asian and African countries who met for the Asian-African Summit in April 2005 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1955 Bandung Conference among Asian and African leaders. At the New Asian-African Strategic Partnership (NAASP) - UNEP Workshop on Environmental Law and Policy jointly convened by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Governments of Indonesia and South Africa in Jakarta and Bandung, Indonesia from 12-16 December 2006, 58 experts from 40 Asian and African countries considered the problems and needs in environmental law and policy facing their countries and reviewed their own experiences in addressing them. Following intensive debate on those issues, they identified a set of recommendations as a way forward to address them. On 16 December 2006, the experts participating in the workshop and senior officials of the Governments of Indonesia and South Africa, in the final session of the workshop, gathered at the historic venue of the 1955 Asian-African Conference and the 2005 Asian-African Summit in Bandung, and adopted the recommendations as the outcome of the workshop - Bandung Roadmap for Advancement of Environmental Law in Support of the New Asian-African Strategic Partnership.

Bandung Roadmap for Advancement of Environmental Law in Support of the New Asian-African Strategic Partnership