Cup exercise and johari”s
window
Demonstrating participation
concepts
How to do it group one
• Using the pictures, answer the following
questions:
• How do you view the community in which
you are operating?
• How does the community view you?
• What needs to be changed?
• How can you change this?
PURPOSE
• To understand what blocks communication
between external and internal people.
• To understand how we can better improve
communication for more effective stakeholder
participation.
• To demonstrate how we can enhance
participation for ground water management
Joharis window
BLIND
OPEN
HIDDEN
UNKNOWN
Joharis window
• CONCEPTUAL TOOL
OPEN
CLOSED
HIDDEN
UNKNOWN
Stakeholder participation
• There is information known to self and not
known to others and this information if not
shared will not enhance participation. This is the
closed window
• There is hidden information usually by insiders
from outsiders and this hinders participation.
• There is information that may not be known by
both the insiders and outsiders and gain this
hinders participation.
• Stakeholder participation will be enhanced by the
open window. Where information ios known to
all
The Cup Exercise
• All sets have seven cups & instructions and an
action to take with each:
Instructional steps
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Fill the cup to the brim with hot black coffee
Fill the cup with hot coffee
Fill the cup with coffee
Fill the cup with some liquid
Put some liquid in the cup
Put something in the cup and use it as you see
fit
In your groups follow the instructions below:
1. Arrange the cups from the most controlling to the least
controlling
2. Show the cup that best represents the way you having
been working in your districts
3. Show the cup you wish to use in the future
4. Justify your choice
Cup exercise
• The purpose of the cup exercise is to
demonstrate the degree of control implicit in
communication
• The tool helps us assess the approaches being
used in dvlpt or humanitarian interventions
What the tools demonstrate?
• The community’s capacity is dvlpd through
strengthening & protecting a community’s
abilities to take control of its own destiny & to
manage & direct its own dvlpt process.
• People can not be dvlpd but they dvlp
themselves.
• Community capacity dvlpt is facilitated to ensure
that the community is able to undertake its own
assessment, analysis & action on issues faced by
the community.