International Development Journalism Awards In Pictures

The fight against drug-resistant malaria is heightened on the Cambodian-Thai border. In the beautiful and remote Cambodian province of Pailin, people live with the threat of this potentially deadly disease every day of their lives, with the risk of being infected highest at dawn and dusk. Mosquito nets are one of the best ways to avoid being bitten. Photograph: Patrick Brown/Patrick Brown - Panos 2013

Single parent Karen Ndhlovu, 22, lives in Mtendere, a slum area of the Zambian capital Lusaka. She has this year received training through a programme that aims to teach young people all aspects of starting up a business, from raising finance to networking and marketing. Photograph: Francois d'Elbee/Guardian

Female porters, known as kayayei, carry tubs of yams on their heads in the Agbogbloshie market, Accra, Ghana. The women, who often sleep at the markets, huddled together for safety, are receiving help to take control of their reproductive rights to lessen the chances of unplanned pregnancies and sexual-transmitted disease. Photograph: Nana Kofi Acquah/Guardian

Mantosh Sheikh, 12, reads with her mother Tabbasum Sheikh, 30, while her sister, Shabana, 10, lies on the bed at their house in the slums of Jogeshwari in Mumbai, India. In the face of entrenched gender inequalities, several initiatives across India are trying to engage communities with education and health programmes to improve the future for women.
Photograph: Atul Loke/Panos Pictures/Guardian

Sunita Devi, 30, used to work as a manual scavenger, cleaning dry latrines not connected to the sewage network. She now cleans toilets in a slum near Boring Road, Patna, Bihar, India. Sunita lives with her husband and four children. Schemes to help manual scavengers find alternative work or set up their own business have often failed because of caste-based discrimination. But a proposed change in the law would make it easier for them to seek other employment, while the replacement of dry latrines with flush toilets will gradually eradicate manual scavenging in India. Photograph: Poulomi Basu/Guardian

A woman in Goba Kebele, Ethiopia, sits among sustainably harvested eucalyptus leaves, which will be sold to an essential oils processing centre. Local communities and regional government are working together to address the dual problems of poverty and environmental degradation, with local cooperatives assuming responsibility for conservation. Photograph: Lisa Murray/Guardian

Suntali Bika, of Chapagaun, Gorkha, covers her face against the smoke in her kitchen. Cooking over traditional open wood-fire stoves exposes thousands of people to dangerous levels of pollutants in Nepal, but schemes to improve the design of stoves and install ventilation systems are helping to greatly reduce the risks. Photograph: NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati/Guardian

Francis Okot, 26, weighs meat in his butchery in the market in Gulu, Uganda, where the government is taking action to support entrepreneurship. Photograph: Tadej Znidarcic/Guardian

Grade 12 pupils from Shiyane High walk home from school in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The country's teachers work almost exclusively in English, so speakers of the nation's other official languages can be at a disadvantage. But projects are being put in place to redress the balance. Photograph: Glenn Murray/Guardian

Francisca Odhambo sits outside with her daughter Viona, who has epilepsy, in Kibera, Kenya. After years of campaigning, the voices of disabled people are finally being heard by the country's decision-makers. Photograph: Julia McKay/Guardian

Ghanaian farmers sieve rice grains after the harvest in Weta, Ghana. Smallholders are being helped to improve their harvests and get better access to lucrative markets for this hugely important crop for west Africa. Photograph: George Osodi/Guardian

Women in Kigali, Rwanda, gather in the shade of trees for an awareness session on their rights with respect to gender-based violence. Photograph: Julia McKay/Guardian