The Orange Order will attempt to persuade its supporters not to drink at the major Tour of the North parade in Belfast on Friday.
Orange Order marches have often been marked by drunkeness and sectarian violence. The Order said it will have marshals walking the route of the parade with police officers to clamp down on drunkenness.
The move comes after the Order agreed to drop a section of its march after talks with nationalists to help reduce tensions.
Last month, Lord (Paddy) Ashdown’s Strategic Review of Parading, issued a code of conduct for parades which would compel all participants to co-operate with the police, ensure no-one attending a parade was under the influence of drink or drugs, there was no inappropriate and abusive language or gestures and no paramilitary costumes, flags, banners or symbols.
Parade organising secretary Stephen McAllister said drinking had contributed to problems at the event in previous years.
“For quite a while now we have been trying to discourage drinking, especially with young people, because when young people get drink into them they are not really responsible for their own actions.
“It does detract from the parade itself."
“Anything that happens, no matter who does it, the Orange Order gets the blame,” he said.
The Orange Order move to reduce drinking at the march comes after the decision announced last week to ensure the contentious parade avoids a North Belfast flashpoint.
The Tour of the North parade will not return past the Ardoyne shops - scene of many violent clashes in the past - following a deal brokered by nationalist residents and parade organisers.
The decision has raised hopes that the summer can pass without inter-community tensions being raised and was widely welcomed.
Positive engagement between the Ardoyne Parades Dialogue Group and the North and West Belfast Parades Forum resulted in the Forum withdrawing the return leg of the parade past Ardoyne.
Mr McAllister said efforts would now be made to reduce drinking at the event.
“I don’t think they (police) will be going hard on people taking drink left, right and centre, but what we will do is have a marshal nearby with police and officials to the community to say this is wrong, we don’t want this,” he said.
He told the BBC: “I would think, knowing some people around the area, they will have more respect for an Orange marshal than they would just a police officer on his own. It (the anti-drinking move) is a sort of united front.”