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In 2007 the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) set up the Trafficking Victims Re/integration Programme (TVRP), which ran until 2014 in Albania, Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in Romania and Bulgaria until 2011. In addition to the financial support to 15 local NGOs for the implementation of long-term re/integration schemes, the TVRP has played a role in conceptualising the re/integration issue, sharing findings and experiences broadly through issue papers, workshops and trainings, and improving coordination among NGOs and governments. Over the course of the project, 1731 victims of trafficking were helped, or roughly 26% of identified victims in the region, approximately 60% of whom were successfully re/integrated. In addition, over 1190 secondary beneficiaries (normally the families of trafficking victims) received support. Most beneficiaries overall were female, though the proportion of male victims given support rose from just 10% in 2007 to 21.6% by 2014. The largest shift was to a focus on children: in 2007 less than a quarter of assisted cases were trafficked children, but by 2014 that had risen to 70%. Children, especially street children, were identified as particularly vulnerable and as even more difficult to re/integrate, so from 2012 the TVRP prioritised funding on NGOs with expertise in supporting young victims.
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