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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).

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