DAJA 2025 Results Announcement

Tokyo, Japan – Articles reporting on the impacts of climate change, digitalization, and environmental damage in Asia and the Pacific have won the Developing Asia Journalism Awards (DAJA) 2025.

The DAJA selection committee awarded five articles that cover topics including rising sea levels in Fiji, the heat–maternal health nexus in South Asia, the realities of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for business process outsourcing (BPO) workers in the Philippines, and Banana plantation soil degradation in Lao People’s Democratic Republic. These stories were particularly successful in shedding lights on the situations faced by women and disadvantaged or marginalized groups.

DAJA 2025 Winning Articles (in alphabetical order)

• Elnur Mirzazada
  Rising Seas, Resilient Communities: Climate Adaptation in Fiji
• Faisal Rehman
  In the Heat of Labour: How Pakistan’s Expectant Mothers Battle Heatwaves
• Michael Beltran
  AI Is Making Philippine Call Center Work More Efficient, for Better and Worse
• Sanket Jain
  Scientists Are Just Starting to Understand the Links Between Climate Change and Maternal Mental Health. India’s Community Health Workers Are Already Finding Ways to Tackle It
• Vo Kieu Bao Uyen
  Banana Boom, Soil Bust

Authors of the selected articles will be invited to a virtual awards ceremony on 24 July and will each receive a $2,000 cash prize. Three of the awards will go to journalists under the age of 30.

DAJA is an initiative that promotes quality journalism accurately reporting on regional efforts to advance sustainable development.

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