The Research Alliance for Climate and Health (REACH) is a developing concept that is envisaged as anchored among a formal relationship among the DOH/NICD, DFFE, SAMRC,  and the South African Weather Services and will bring together all other interested parties through a steering committee with codified partnerships. It will manage a set of funded research projects of its own (with appropriate partnerships among members) and provide a set of climate and health-related services to the appropriate clients in government and the private sector and to the growing climate and health research community. REACH should not try to control this space, but rather provide a means of documenting, co-ordinating and augmenting and adding value to ongoing efforts.