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 1987 households across 5 prefectures in Yunnan provinces in the Upper Brahmaputra sub-basin in China. The households were selected following a probability based multi-stage cluster sampling approach.

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 2647 households across 7 districts in states of Assam and Arunanchal Pradesh in the Eastern Brahmaputra sub-basin in India. The households were selected following a probability based multi-stage cluster sampling approach.

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 1139 households across 3 Union Councils in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan provinces in the Upper Indus sub-basin in Pakistan. The households were selected following a probability based multi-stage cluster sampling approach.

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.

Resilient Mountain Solution (RMS) and RMS Poverty and Vulnerability Assessment (PVA) is a ward level household survey to have get a deeper understanding of Dadeldhura site. The survey was a part of the case study at covering multiple issues focusing on agricultural and animal husbandry practices, energy use, environmental and socioeconomic changes faced, their impact and coping to identify emerging issues, determinants of vulnerability and develop solution to improve their resilience for enhanced livelihoods. The survey covers 110 households across the 5 wards of Bhageswor rural municipality in Dadeldhura which was purposively selected. Household selection for the survey was done following random sampling method within the wards.