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 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.

Digital table data of Socio-economic Characteristics of Koshi Basin. This dataset is created using population census at district level and comprise major socio-economic indicators captured in this sections are GDP per capita, poverty incidence, literacy ratio, economically active population, households access with basic amenities. Major data source for this dataset are Census of India(2011), census of Nepal (2011) and IMHE Technical Report(2013).

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.

Management Capacity Index (MCI): refers to the socio-economic attributes; in the absence of which; responsible for the water vulnerability. The variables such as literacy rate, population without sanitation, access to electricity, drinking water coverage, type of houses, women headed households, incidence of poverty etc are taken into account to calculate the MCI.

The Poverty and Vulnerability Assessment Tool (PVAT) dataset was developed to capture the micro-level perspective of people's experiences with poverty and vulnerability and to monitor poverty and vulnerability trends on the ground. The assessment was based on a standardized questionnaire that has been developed to assess, describe, and analyse the situation of poor and vulnerable people in the Nepal. This will lead to an enhanced understanding of multiple aspects of livelihood assets, structures, and the processes that underpin such assets. It will also help determine levels of access, terms of exchange, and returns from livelihood assets as well as livelihood strategies and their outcomes for the poor. PVAT was conducted twice in 2011 and 2012. Sankhuwashava,Terthum, Saptari, Gorkha, Jajarkot, Kailali, Bajhang and Sindhupalchok in 2011. Taplejung, Bhojpur, Solukhumbu, Sindhuli, Rukum, Dailekh, Mugu and Darchula in 2012.

The Poverty and Vulnerability Assessment (PVA) dataset was developed to capture the micro-level perspective of people's experiences with poverty and vulnerability and to monitor poverty and vulnerability trends on the ground. The assessment was based on a standardized questionnaire that has been developed to assess, describe, and analyse the situation of poor and vulnerable people in the HKH region. This will lead to an enhanced understanding of multiple aspects of livelihood assets, structures, and the processes that underpin such assets. It will also help determine levels of access, terms of exchange, and returns from livelihood assets as well as livelihood strategies and their outcomes for the poor.

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.