Can reality TV help communities to better cope with climate risks?

Amrai Pari visits communities in the areas of the country most susceptible to environmental hazards and challenges them to work together - with their neighbours and local traders to make their infrastructure more weather-resistant and learn new resilience-enhancing techniques. By showcasing the success of real communities, the programme aims to help and encourage audiences to work together more in their own neighbourhoods and become more aware of better ways to prepare against the threat of environmental hazards.

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• Despite facing very different hazards, all communities understood the need to prepare for and adapt to them. They prepared and responded to hazards when they felt that their livelihoods were under immediate threat or when actions directly helped them to make ends meet.
• Three factors had the most influence on community action. The more threatening people perceive local environmental hazards to be, the more likely they are to take action. Communities with high levels of collective efficacy had a better track record of taking action to improve their resilience.
• Communities tended to take action, if they felt empowered and there was support for their concerns at the local government level.

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