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The objective of the project is the establishment of the social programme to reduce the demand for trafficking in human beings. The broader objective of the project is to prevent and combat human trafficking and the resulting demand for prostitution in Estonia. The direct objective of the project is to establish a pilot programme for sex buyers to change their attitudes and behaviour. The project results in a pilot social programme. A total of 12 sex buyers will participate and pass the programme. As part of the project, a handbook on the implementation of the social programme will be established, containing theoretical, methodological, and visual material to carry out the social programme. The establishment of the social programme will involve sex buyers, who will be surveyed on a wider basis, and those sex buyers who will participate in the programme will pass structured interviews. The staff of the prosecutor’s office, the staff of the unit of organised crime and offences against people at the Police and Border Guard Board, and lawyers are involved in the preparation of the social programme as the focus groups. The possibilities to further implement the social programme are described in both in terms of the participation of volunteers and the participation of arrested sex buyers involved in the commission of a crime of human trafficking. At the end of the project, an analysis of the impact of the social programme and development needs will be prepared.