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1 Community Empowerment What’s in this chapter? Community empowerment is the foundation for all of the interventions and approaches described in this tool. This chapter: • defines community empowerment and explains why it is fundamental to addressing HIV and STIs among sex workers in an effective and sustainable way (Section 1.1) • describes eight elements of community empowerment, with examples from a number of programmes (Section 1.2). The chapter also presents: • examples of indicators to measure the empowerment of sex worker organizations (Section 1.3) • a list of resources and further reading (Section 1.4). 3