Power relations in all social and political contexts fundamentally influence the roles and relationships between all those involved in an ECB process. However, these are rarely examined in detail as a constitutive part of the ECB process. And yet, interwoven in any developmental evaluative process are aspects of relationships, such as caring and respect, reciprocity, conflict, suspicion and mistrust and much more. There is no doubt that the quality of the relationships established and maintained throughout a developmental evaluative process determine, at least in part, the overall evaluative and capacity building intent and outcome. A key learning from our ECB experience is that evaluators must have the skills and abilities to pay attention to, and examine the social and political relations in a developmental process. This paper discusses one approach that collaboratively inquires into the values that underpin key concepts guiding a project and as such, is a very useful process for revealing and attending to and the different political and power relations that so fundamentally underpin the programmes and evaluative processes within community organisations. The approach also serves to convey the kind of values that we seek to advance in our evaluation practice, i.e., respect, attentiveness, acceptance, etc. and therefore is important relational work in helping to shape both the quality of relationships as well as the content and form of evaluative knowledge that will be generated. #2012Conference #OrganizationalLearningandEvalCapacityBuilding