The road starts at Kagamba, 15 kilometres (9 mi) west of Ntungamo, on the road to Rukungiri,[1] and continues north through Kitagata in Sheema District and Kashenyi in Bushenyi District, to end in Ishaka, a distance of approximately 36.5 kilometres (23 mi).
[2] The road connects traffic from Rwanda, Burundi, and southwestern Uganda, that is destined for the oil-rich Albertine graben, directly with the Mbarara-Katunguru highway.
The final detailed design project report was submitted to the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) in November 2010.
Consulting engineering and supervision services were procured from a consortium of LEA International Limited of Canada in joint venture with LEA Associates South Asia Private Limited from India in association with KOM Consult Limited of Uganda for approximately US$2,141,850.
[6] In his 2016/2017 budget speech given on 9 June 2016, the president of Uganda listed this road as "completed".