The E & L Programme aims to protect the environment and improve opportunities for young people towards secure and sustainable livelihoods. Specifically the programme seeks to:

1. Enhance awareness and facilitate reform of policy and legislation towards sustainable management of natural resources and the mitigation of the impact of climate change.
2. Promote effective home and industrial waste management and the use of renewable energy technologies to improve sanitation and reduce pollution.
3. Create and expand opportunities for sustainable livelihoods for young people in Kenya.

The programme works on the following priority areas:
 Natural Resources Management
 Pollution & Waste Management
 Energy & Climate Change
 Livelihoods Development
o Apprenticeship
o Volunteerism & Volunteer Development
o Entrepreneurship & Enterprise Development

Waste Management Project
In 2010 Youth Alive! Kenya took an initiative to launch a project on waste management. The project envisions achieving a healthy environment for low-income areas in Kenya and being able to prepare the foundation for sustainable development in Kenya by institutionalizing a united waste management system in each community.

The project’s purpose is to institutionalize a waste management system at each pilot area of the selected slum communities, which is in line with their current situations of social and economic status. The targeted pilot project areas are in Kibera, Korogocho, Kangemi, Mathare and Kawangware.

The Waste Management project set two phases to achieve these goals. The first phase is to organize and expand networks within communities and make action plans to improve waste management systems and implement the action plans. This phase includes raising awareness of waste management in a community and the importance of sorting waste for recycling among households and business entities and uniting youth groups of a community towards improving waste management systems. The second phase is to initiate income generating activities based on the improved waste management systems. All phases are based on the concepts of “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle” waste.

This project is controlled by youth groups registered to a Google group - Nairobi Waste Management Working Group. Members of the group are youth groups that aim to improve waste management systems in their communities.