As a nation Somalia is in the midst of rebuilding the Parliament is a symbol of these efforts there are a few functioning public services many staff capacity challenges and very little civil society outreach public discussions on legislation have been exceedingly rare and never has the national budget been publicly discussed in the post-conflict period until now when we first put on the table public hearing but just public hearing it was a new phenomenon the process before the one we use it super asked for so long was not to ask the people anything only to do it in 2017 the Somali government held the first public budget hearing of its kind inviting the public to listen and offer their opinions on spending allocations informative best spent in the definitive oblique healing we have ever hear and that time we did not know any about what the budget is the hearing the budget is approved by Parliament but some of them they don't know what's inside the budget they do exist of the budget in the state in a republic others they need to know that this one is there our money from their pockets and it will be used back to them this is a life hearing and some of the people sometimes they're asking lit and hot questions that's what we are fearing before we were very eager to have a sort of contribution from the civil society but at the same time we're having such kind of concern is also to answer their questions health also the other sectors especially education and health is small there were a lot of you know mister misinterpretation it we were we were having a concern is how you present in front of the people below they wouldn't basically gabardelli so that it below will register with the muchacabra he'll externally 2017 it was a landmark in the history of budget presentation of the sort of Somalia it's a good opportunity that the people has a right and we get the right to participate the public hearing and say we wanted this and this and the location be changing this position it was very amazing things Suhani Lipkin Murchison tawa and even Cushi Crowe in in wool al and Kali to you know figure and filling in and figure K so beneath her the USAID funded strengthening Somali governance project engaged with members of civil society and the Budget and Finance Committee by building their capacity to conduct budget analysis develop budget reports and advocate for clarifications and changes in the setting of a public hearing we highly appreciate holds jasmine support to the our committee collects and even the committee themselves how to prepare the legislations we received a lot of appreciation letter is from the civil society by saying thank you for having us you know attendees at the end of vegetarian and we you believe that our ideas for our contributions will be considered after two or three hours after the hearing every person or all our committees including the stuff they are satisfied what's happening there now they have the capacity that they can analyze what committee has been done the day before yesterday or the last week when you're after they can summarize the system now is it embrace anybody who comes in unless they in Bluefield more they can't go back it's a forward step to through our government to our institutions and to everybody it's right of their own they know it's their right and the government understands it right our committee will not need expertise we will be the expertise of the future you