[1] The road starts at Mpigi, a town of 44,274,[2] about 39 kilometres (24 mi), southwest of Kampala, the capital of Uganda and the largest city in that country.

[3] The road continues through four central Ugandan districts to end at Ssembabule, a total distance of about 139 kilometres (86 mi).

[5] In October 2010, Uganda National Roads Authority, a parastatal, publicly announced that in 2011, it would begin upgrading 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) of 32 different national roads in the country, from unsealed gravel surface to class II bitumen.

Work on both sections started in 2014, with expected completion in the second half of 2017.

[7] Finding is 100 percent provided by the Ugandan government.