Community empowerment,therefore,is more than the involvement,participation or engagement of communities.It implies community ownership and action that explicitly aims at social and political change.community empowerment is a process of re-negotiating power in order to gain more control it recognizes that if some people are going to be empowered,then others will be sharing their existing power and giving some of it up (baum2008).power is a central concept in community empowerment and health promotion invariably operates within the arena of a power struggle