About Us
“Let me take you back to the beginning of the organization, because we believe we are part of the new wave of feminism. That is a defining moment for us. We also call ourselves an autonomous women’s group-autonomous of political parties and government, and in terms of our decision making. When we started we did not really have any motive to say how a feminist organization should run, but we had some commitment to a very democratic collective structure. So we did not really have designations in the organization. Everybody did everything together and a lot of work was really shared collectively.”
Abha Bhaiya
Founder Member of Jagori
Vision
Helping build a just society through feminist values
MISSION & STRATEGIES
To deepen feminist consciousness with diverse partners at local and national levels through:
Feminist research and knowledge building
Supporting women’s leadership and agency
Perspective and capacity development on feminist principles and strategies
Providing Support Services to women survivors of violence
Networking for feminist movement building
Sexual Harassment at the Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal)
Read the Sexual Harassment at the Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Code for Jagori, 2013 in English and Hindi.
Archives:
Jagori – Policy for Prevention and Redressal of Sexual Harassment (2007)
Copyright Policy
All content produced by Jagori is licensed as per Jagori’s Copyright Policy 2014, under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 Internatioal License
Legal Disclaimer for Counselling and Support
One of JAGORI’s key programmes is support and referral services for survivors of violence. Certain guidelines regarding counseling services and the ambit of work are given below.
Guidelines for the Internship programme
JAGORI is instituting an ongoing volunteer internship programme which enables young women’s rights activists and researchers to gain experience and contribute to JAGORI’s mission of advancing women’s rights. Interns should commit to a minimum four month- period in order to gain valuable exposure to a wide range of women’s human rights issues in the country.
HISTORY
JAGORI started out as a collective, and basic commitment to issues was very clear at the outset. The challenge was taking feminist consciousness to rural areas, making activism and theory come close to each other, and how to work creatively, reaching out to the main constituency, women, majority of whom were not educated. New communication tools were developed, such as feminist songs, which are still central to JAGORI’s work. Another path-breaking endeavor was feminist training, a collective learning experience, where the methods used were not only participatory, but also based on women’s ways of learning.
Carrying the concerns and currents of women’s movements to an ever-widening network of groups and organizations is central to JAGORI’s work. In over two decades of JAGORI’s work, we have reached out to grassroots women leaders in the states of Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal.
In order to understand more about JAGORI’s work, read ‘Living Feminisms’, an illustrated history of JAGORI.
Jagori has in source 10,000 materials, 260 files and 800 films in its physical repository. Its body of work – documented and undocumented – includes feminist debates, articles, papers, photos. A feminist digital archival museum was initiated in December 2014 to curate 30 year old archives housed in Jagori.
Explore this archive at
www.livingfeminisms.orgThe Founders
The Executive Committee
The General Body
The Jagori Team
Advisors
Jagori awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar
08.03.2016
On International Women’s Day – 8th March, 2016, the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India awarded Jagori , along with 5 other organisations and 15 individuals with the Nari Shakti Puraskar – “for outstanding work for welfare and well-being of women”....
The award was given out by the Hon’ble President of India, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee.
Founded by six women and one man in 1984, Jagori has been a pioneer and a follower – a part of larger movements and processes – as it pursued its vision of building a just society through feminist values. Some of Jagori’s interventions are seen as best practices around the world – this includes recent work on gender and access to water and sanitation in low income communities ; research on women’s safety in cities and the Safe Delhi Campaign; and the Youth and Safety project.
Jagori has worked as a partner to various institutions and Government Departments, providing unbiased, independent technical inputs on gender, where required. Jagori was technical partner in the Gender Equality Project, providing strategic gender inputs that enabled thousands of women across eight districts in four of the poorest states to recognize and access rights and entitlements. This is now scaled up to 27 disctricts in seven states.
Jagori’s primers on gender, feminism, violence against women, and masculinity, and its feminist songs are popularly used by activists and development professionals. Jagori runs a feminist counseling centre for women survivors of violence.
Jagori acknowledges its fellow feminist travelers – founders and board members, advisors, community women and youth, activists of the women’s movement, volunteers and interns, team members, consultants, resource persons, donors, partners and well wishers, who have been a part of this journey since its inception in 1984.
Jagori, India receives the Roland Berger Human Dignity Award 2012/13
16.04.2013
Berlin, 16th April 2013
The “Roland Berger Human Dignity Award” for 2012/13 was conferred by the President of the Bundestag Dr.Norbert Lammert, to the Indian women’s rights organisation “Jagori”; the Pakistani lawyer and women’s rights activist Dr. Asma Jahangir; and the “Afghan Women’s Network”.
ANNUAL REPORTS
Annual Reports document Jagori’s work over the year, including the achievements, new learnings and challenges
