The purpose of this Research and Monitoring Action Plan (RMAP) is to assist in putting the ODMP's Research Strategy (RS) into practice. It does this by providing a more specific overview of the currently ongoing research and monitoring (R&M) efforts, specifying the activities that need to be initiated and topics that need to be investigated to address current problems and needs, as well as outlining some specific tasks and responsibilities to get these started. It was developed from January to March 2007, involving a series of interviews with ODMP stakeholders as well as two stakeholder workshops, during which the overviews were obtained, R&M needs and priorities identified and activities and responsibilities discussed and decided upon.