The theme of this guide is Political Empowerment (PE). It brings together a range of tools, methods and concrete experiences that can inspire and give new ideas to people who engage with political empowerment processes in the Global South. The guide does not provide a blue-print or ready-made answers for how to best promote political empowerment everywhere. Instead it seeks to encourage reflection on what political empowerment is and to suggest ways to analyse and approach the numerous dilemmas, challenges and complexities that face the political empowerment of poor and marginalised people in different contexts.