  Climate change is affecting every known society, especially for small farmers
in Low-Income Countries because they depend heavily on rain, seasonality
patterns, and known temperature ranges. To build climate change resilient
communities among rural farmers, the first step is to understand the impact of
climate change on the population. This paper proposes a Climate Change
Vulnerability Assessment Framework (CCVAF) to assess climate change
vulnerabilities among rural farmers. The CCVAF framework uses information and
communication technology (ICT) to assess climate change vulnerabilities among
rural farmers by integrating both community level and individual household
level indicators. The CCVAF was instantiated into a GIS-based web application
named THRIVE for different decision-makers to better assess how climate change
is affecting rural farmers in Western Honduras. Qualitative evaluation of the
THRIVE showed that it is an innovative and useful tool. The CCVAF contributes
to not only the knowledge base of the climate change vulnerability assessment
but also the design science literature by providing guidelines to design a
class of climate change vulnerability assessment solutions.
