diff --git a/app/controllers/api/v0/dmptemplates_controller.rb b/app/controllers/api/v0/dmptemplates_controller.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6680342
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/controllers/api/v0/dmptemplates_controller.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+module Api
+  module V0
+    class DmptemplatesController < Api::V0::BaseController
+      before_action :authenticate
+
+      swagger_controller :dmptemplates, 'Templates'
+
+      def index
+        # check if the user has permissions to use the templates API
+        if has_auth("templates")
+          @all_templates = Dmptemplate.all
+          respond_with @all_templates
+        else
+          #render unauthorised
+          render json: I18n.t("api.no_auth_for_endpoint"), status: 401
+        end
+
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
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diff --git a/app/views/api/v0/dmptemplates/index.json.jbuilder b/app/views/api/v0/dmptemplates/index.json.jbuilder
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..33ebd74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/api/v0/dmptemplates/index.json.jbuilder
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# builds a json response to api query for a list of all dmptemplates
+json.prettify!
+
+json.templates Organisation.all.each do |org|
+  unless org.published_templates.blank?
+    json.organisation_name    org.name
+    json.organisation_id      org.id
+    json.organisation_templates org.published_templates.each do |template|
+      json.title        template.title
+      json.id           template.id
+      json.description  template.description
+    end
+  end
+end
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diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index 6d342ee..ac744dc 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -176,8 +176,8 @@
     namespace :api, defaults: {format: :json} do
       namespace :v0 do
         resources :guidance_groups, only: [:index, :show]
-        resources :guidances, only: [:index, :show]
         resources :plans, only: :create, controller: "projects", path: "plans"
+        resources :templates, only: :index, controller: "dmptemplates", path: "templates"
       end
     end