The Women Writers Forum is a Non-Governmental Organization formed to meet the following objectives:
- To promote and represent interests of women in the media and women in general, particularly in as far as the media portrays them and in their efforts to participate equally in national development.
- To create a consultative forum for women writers to meet and discuss issues affecting them and the development of their craft, expertise, ability and skills.
- To expound interest more on girls to join journalism so as to increase more women in the media houses and ultimately help to balance opinion and representation of women in the media.
- To represent women interests, status and aspirations and to establish women screenwriters, producers and directors, poet, filmmaker, playwright, short story writer and novelist and to stand as representative voice within the various industry structures.
- Highlight the developmental concerns of marginalized sections of TANZANIA society particularly in rural areas and to draw out perspectives on women on these issues through their writings.
- To have national writers Festival.
- To create a sustainable forum for the promotion and marketing of Tanzanian literature and authors.
- To equip women with skills and knowledge of how to use the media in promoting their position as leaders in the society at large.
- The forum will collectively address the concerns of women writers for honoring their skills to generate stories on diverse issues, to find space in regional and national media and to encourage new writers in the field through various skills, training and projects.
- To rehabilitate vulnerable and desperate women engaging in commercial sex work.
- To promote women to engage in environmental conservation and to conquer all effect of climate change.
- To support women generally and by way of publication to learn and have better understand on issues related to death caused by malaria to pregnant women.
- To establish professional cooperation and coordination with other similar National or International Organization in the initiation and conduct of cooperative program for the benefits of community.
- To promote the right to education to women/young girls with disabilities and sponsorship for the same where need crop up.
- To engage in all activities conducive to the attainment of the foregoing aims and objectives