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Poverty and Vulnerability Assessment (PVA) household level data of Eastern Brahmaputra sub-basin in India

Updated Date: 9/8/2020 2:48:33 PM

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) household level data of Eastern Brahmaputra sub-basin in India
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Purpose The purpose of the survey was to assess livelihood vulnerability and its determinants as well as adaptive capacities of the mountain people of the HKH region.
Descriptive Keyword Livestock, Livelihood, Climate Change, Income, Expenditure, Agriculture, Ecosystem Services, Governance, Gender, Mountain Poverty, Vulnerability (theme) India, Brahmaputra (place)
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Title Poverty and Vulnerability Assessment (PVA) household level data of Eastern Brahmaputra sub-basin in India
Date 2015-07-29
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Abstract 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.
Purpose The purpose of the survey was to assess livelihood vulnerability and its determinants as well as adaptive capacities of the mountain people of the HKH region.
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Name Mr. Nand Kishor Agrawal Email nandkishor.agrawal@icimod.org
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Position name Programme Coordinator - HICAP Initiative Address
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Geographic Extent East 97.38054 Geographic Extent West 68.14423
Geographic Extent North 35.50562 Geographic Extent South 6.74583
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