RECORD IT! is an educational game designed to teach the importance of legal documentation to enforce rights involving land tenure and inheritance. As players navigate the game, they experience the benefits and lost opportunities that documentation, or lack of it, can generate. Your contribution will help us empower these women to enforce those economic rights and protections often found in the law, but more often not enforced on behalf of those marginalized.
UN Women's report (Progress of the World's Women ) explicitly confirms the need for greater documentation. It describes lack of awareness of the formal legal system as a major barrier to a woman's access to justice in many developing countries. As a result, many people (especially women) are subject to economic vulnerability and hardship. They are often unable to inherit property, provide stability for their children, or access certain occupations.
Record It! seeks to inspire women to access justice. Inspired by traditional board game play, participants will encounter different hypothetical situations in which they can use their legal documents and degrees to protect themselves from negative consequences or gain economic advancement. Understanding the benefits of legal documentation and the rights they can convey is critical.
The intended long term goal of Record It! is women's social and economic empowerment globally. Outcomes include: improved rates of registration female populations (Africa and Afghanistan especially); cross-gender dialogue; motivation to enforce rights and advocate for more favorable inheritance legislation in countries where such rights are presently unprotected or poorly protected; and improved enforcement of rights under existing national laws and frameworks.
