Poverty and Vulnerability Assessment (PVA) is a district level household survey to understand vulnerability of households to environmental and socioeconomic changes with focus on mountain specificity as well as their coping strategies and adaptive capacity. Under the Adaptation to Change program, the Himalaya Climate Change Adaptation Programme (HICAP) initiative have conducted the survey among 2310 households across 6 districts in Eastern and Central development region in the Koshi sub-basin in Nepal. The households were selected following a probability based multi-stage cluster sampling approach.