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.