Geran ini bertujuan untuk mendapatkan cadangan penyelesaian menyeluruh kepada bencana banjir yang melanda negara seperti yang berlaku baru-baru ini. Cadangan penyelesaian ini tertumpu kepada pengurusan bencana banjir sebelum bencana, semasa bencana dan juga selepas bencana.
Geran ini boleh dipohon melalui skim geran seperti berikut:
- Skim Geran Penyelidikan Fundamental (FRGS)
- Skim Geran Penyelidikan Transdisiplinari (TRGS)
- Skim Geran Penyelidikan Pembangunan Prototaip (PRGS)
Pembiayaan geran ini meliputi kluster asas yang dapat menyokong agenda strategik negara. Kluster yang dikenalpasti adalah:
- Sains Tulen (Pure Science)
- Sains Gunaan (Applied Science)
- Teknologi dan Kejuruteraan (Technology and Engineering)
- Sains Kesihatan dan Klinikal (Clinical and Health Sciences)
- Sains Sosial (Social Sciences)
- Sastera dan Sastera Ikhtisas (Arts and Applied Arts)
- Sains Tabii dan Warisan Negara (Natural Sciences and National Heritage)
- Teknologi Maklumat dan Komunikasi (Information and Communication Technology)
Theme: "Holistic solution to flood disaster based on Integrated River Basin Management"
- Basin characteristics: geomorphological and hydrological processes, catchment morphometry, vegetation over.
- Impact on environmental assets: forest, forest management, water supply and water quality, aquatic habitat, environmental flow, bio-diversity etc.
- Flood and flood disaster: trigging and causal factors, mechanism of disaster, risk and uncertainties, impacts, early warning system, flood protection and mitigation measures, flood modeling and prediction, climate change, weather forecasting, etc.
- Land-use and land-cover: land-use management and administration, effectiveness of land-cover policy, spatial analysis, sustainable resource utilization, etc.
- Urbanization and industrialization: villages, township and city, transportation, evacuation processes, relief program, flood-plain settlement/encroachment, etc.
- Governance for disaster risk reduction: law and legislation, development plan, resources protection, awareness, institutional arrangement, policy and guidelines, SOP, insurance, living with flood, etc.
- Health and safety: Community based, psychosocial, infectious and non-infectious diseases, chronic diseases, food security, water borne diseases, vector borne diseases, education, vandalism, social problem, etc.
- Disaster relief and preparedness: Volunteerism, response and preparedness, recovery, ERP, livestock relief, solid waste management, mobile facilities (water, energy, sanitation, communication, cooking facilities), mobile hospital, consultation and fatwa for coping with disaster, etc.
- Socio-economic wellbeing: lost income / job / opportunity / agriculture / livestock / infrastructure, flood damage functions, disaster ethic / values, etc.
- Flood resilience structures: Relief centre, architectural design, material, water supply facilities / water technology, etc.
Geran ini terbuka kepada kakitangan akademik Institusi Pengajian Tinggi (IPT), Institusi Penyelidikan (RI), Universiti Cawangan dan Jabatan Pengajian Politeknik (JPP).
9 bulan
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