Abstract:
Sustainable Development Goal number three aims to ensure healthy lives and promote
well- being for all at all ages. World Health Organization recommends Physical Activity
(PA) promotions in every institution for each individual in maintaining their health and
wellbeing. Different organizations, public and private respectively in the world, are
striving to curb the dangers of inactivity behaviors among populations by enacting PA
policies and implementation of the same. The purposeofthisstudy was to evaluate the
strategies put to promote physical activity participation among the University of Dar
esSalaam students in Tanzania. The objectives of the study were to: examine the
utilization of university physical activity facilities and equipments at the
University,establish how the university supports studentsin physicalactivity participation
at the University,assess the university student’s perceptions of physical activity
participation,examine the benefits, challenges, and solutions to students during physical
activity participation. Social support theory of Israel Schrunm and social cognitive
learning theory by Albert Bandura were employed in this study. The study embraced
concurrent triangulation design of mixed methods which involved collecting and
analyzing data at the same time. The study targeted 28,000 University students, 1
University sport and games coordinator, and 1 University social service director. The data
weregenerated using interviews, observation,and questionnaires from 309participants.The
findings indicate the number of strategies put by the university to promote Physical
Activity (PA) participation such strategies include; enacting and implementing the sports
policy, physical/instrumental support, emotional support, and informational support.
Also, 70% of participants established that the support would enable them to participate
fully in PA if were well provided by the University. However, 64% of the participants
reported time for PA practices to be among the highly rated constraints for PA
participation at the University.
On the basis of the theory used in this study, to enable one to take part in PA there is a
need for the provision of visible time in the university curriculum that will permeate full
attention for PA for health benefits. However, the study concludes with the implication of
the findings, indicating what is needed for the improvements in PA participation rates
among individuals in higher learning education settings. Hence, the findings will help in
the achievements of SDG and consequently achieve health target number