The Impact of Sport For all Programs and its Implementation in Gambella Administrative Town
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2012-10
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Addis Abeba university
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to describe the impacts of sport for all programs and its implementation in
Gambella Administrative town, to suggest effective and appropriate ways in order to avoid or minimize
challenges in public participation. To these end, attempts were made to identify influence in public
participation in sport and examining the participation of every individuals including girls and persons
with disabilities in sport activities. Moreover, the study was proposed more effective and appropriate
methods to enhance every individual’s participation in sport regardless of sex, age, economical status and
peoples with disabilities. The study was conducted on three randomly selected high schools, Gambella
administrative town youth and sport office, Gambella sport commission and sport for all participants.
From these sample high schools, sample of physical education teachers and students were selected by
using availability sampling and stratified sampling techniques respectively, from both sample of
Gambella administrative town youth and sport experts and sport for all participants were selected by
availability sampling techniques. The required data were gathered from sample schools, physical
education teachers, students, sport experts and sport for all participants by using questionnaire, semistructured
interview and observation. After the data were collected from these samples in these ways, the
questionnaire data was analyzed and interpreted by using frequency and percentage, data from semistructured
interview and observation were summarized shortly by the researcher. The finding of the study
revealed that there were problems in implementation of sport for all, of which the most important were
discrimination of girls and people with disability in sport activity, lack of facilities and materials, lack of
awareness of the significance of physical activity, role model influence, family influence, limited
opportunities and programs for participation, training and competition. The findings of the study also
indicated that there were many factors in the public participation of sport, lack of motivation, sport
professionals did not give attention for the societies, limited access of information and resource, peer
group influence, lack of media coverage, religious attitude and the curriculum does not address the needs,
interests and capacity of girls and people with disability. Lastly, as it is evident from the findings in the
study, suggestions forwarded to enhance the participation of every individuals in sport, like creating the
opportunities of awareness of sport or physical activity, improving availability of materials and facilities,
demonstrating the role models of parents, friends and teachers, creating conducive environment, presence
of sport expert-societies communication and school mini-media were founded to be effective and
appropriate methods to promote the participation of every individual regardless of sex, age and people
with disabilities in implementation of sport for all programs.
Key terms : sport, disability, Para Olympic, equality and physical activity
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Sport; disability; Para Olympic; equality and physical activity