The main Project beneficiaries will be small-holding farmers (up to 5 ha) and medium holding farmers (5-20 ha) engaged in irrigated agriculture. In the Project areas, approximately 42,800 farm households will benefit from irrigation schemes and improved on-farm water management, 3,600 households will benefit from improved potable water supply, 10,200 households will benefit from improved flood protection and 20,400 households will benefit from better watershed and range land management. In total, approximately 71,200 households (or an estimated 569,400 people) will directly benefit; these totals reflect that some households benefit from multiple project interventions and assume an average of eight people per household.

The Project will be implemented in the Nari Basin (69,200 km2) and the Porali Basin (11,600 km2). Six irrigation schemes will be implemented; three in the Nari Basin (scheme area 62,400 ha) and three in the Porali Basin (scheme area 15,600 ha). There will also be sixteen village water supply schemes where intake structures and water supply systems will be rehabilitated and remodeled. The Project will finance flood protection works in five districts (seven sites) in the Nari Basin, and in two districts (five sites) in the Porali Basin. Collectively, across the two river basins, these flood protection works will protect ~14,600 ha from erosion and floods.