Southern Sudanese women drew referendum plans to ensure their effective participation in 2011 vote on self-determination.
Women from the ten states of southern Sudan and the Diaspora closed today in Juba a three-day conference about their role in the upcoming referendum.
GoSS minister for Gender, Child and Social Welfare, Agnes Kwaje Lasuba, told the participants that women needed to get organized and well mobilized to achieve their goals during the referendum.
She said women needed to hold key positions in the referendum committees and taskforces at State, County, Payam and Boma levels.
Ms. Kwaje urged women to address their needs to enable them to register and vote in the referendum.
She added that women leaders needed to be trained to spread the right messages to their peers at the grassroots level.
The participants in the Southern Sudan Women's Conference on the 2011 Referendum approved eight recommendations as part of their action plan.
