Environmentally sustainable and affordable building materials are a priority. Therefore, INBAR implemented “Development and Promotion of Bamboo Housing Technology in East Africa”, with the goal of assessing bamboo’s potential to meet regional housing needs in a low-cost, eco-friendly manner. This project built one conventional and one modern bamboo building in both Kenya and Uganda, trained over 60 people on bamboo cultivation, management, and construction, and conducted feasibility, value chain, and sustainability studies on Ethiopian bamboo construction. This increased civil society awareness of bamboo’s potential as a construction material; two universities adopted bamboo construction in their curriculums.