About Us

 
 

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

OBJECTIVES
Consciousness raising and awareness building on violence, health, education, development, and other issues critical for women´s individual and collective empowerment
Advocacy on women´s rights and gender equality
Dissemination of information and knowledge on feminist concerns to meet the needs of women´s groups, NGOs, and development organisations
Production and distribution of creative material on feminist issues
POLICIES

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.

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.

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.org

 
AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Jagori awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar

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.

Jagori, India receives the Roland Berger Human Dignity Award 2012/13

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

financial statements

FCRA REPORTING