Afghanistan’s first and only female governor and a humanitarian worker from the Kachin minority in Myanmar, Habiba Sarabi, is among this year’s recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay Award.

Sarabi was honoured for helping build a functioning local government and pushing for education and women’s rights in Afghanistan’s Bamyan province despite discrimination and poverty.

Lahpai Seng Raw helps rehabilitate damaged communities amid armed conflict.

The awards announced on Wednesday, will honour three individuals and two organisations for changing their societies for the better.

The Philippine leadership prize is named after the popular Philippine president who died in a plane crash in 1957.