• idi programs
• yunus challenges
  2007 – 2011:
• 2011
  agricultural processing
• 2010
  promoting clean hands for health and prosperity
• 2009
  affordable small-scale energy storage solutions
• 2008
  improving indoor air quality to break the cycle of poverty
• 2007
  increasing adherence to tuberculosis drugs in rural developing country contexts

the muhammad yunus innovation challenge

Each year the Muhammad Yunus Innovation Challenge to Alleviate Poverty highlights a pressing need of the world’s poor and enables MIT students to develop solutions through a variety of mechanisms, including Public Service fellowship grants, the IDEAS competition and D-Lab. The Challenge, named in honor of 2006 Nobel Prize winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus, was initiated and is supported by MIT alumnus Mr. Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel, benefactor of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT (J-PAL).