[11][12][13] Across the six months, the Programme for People and Planet had participation and endorsement from various world leaders, including Amina J. Mohammed, Helen Clark, and Bill Gates, as well as artists such as Coldplay.

[15][16][17][18] Each track was integrated by different series of events including Cultures in Conversation, Business Forums, World Majlis, Women's Pavilion Programme, Dignified Storytelling, Expo Live and the Best Practice Area.

Topics included scaling up and applying innovative approaches to service delivery, and different ways to empower last mile communities and households at risk of being left behind, so that they might fully benefit from and actively contribute to sustainable development.

It culminated in a multifunctional exhibition and programming space, bringing together diverse stakeholders to share ideas on how different project components can be adapted, replicated and scaled globally.

[25] Expo Live's programming series showcased the importance of social entrepreneurs in identifying grassroots approaches to global challenges, while catalysing opportunities for new partnerships.

Flip Your Worldview was featured across Expo's Global Goals Week as a key component of the Build Bridges cultural track, and was spotlighted across countries' National Days.

[33] A collection of stories chosen to help children aged 5 to 12 years explore various differences and shared values, broaden their world view, and gain a greater appreciation of their own heritage – as well as develop a love of reading.

[36] An activation that started during Global Goals week and ran until the end of event time taking place across the entire Expo 2020 site to engage visitors with the UN SDGs.

[37] Throughout its six months of programming, the Programme for People and Planet provided a platform that enabled partnerships and reinforced the world's commitments to address global issues.

During the same theme week, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, and the Netherlands issued a Tri-lateral declaration on the last day of the Water-Food-Energy Nexus event.

[45] In addition, the UAE-FAO agreement to support FAO's "Hand-in-Hand Initiative: Zimbabwe Project for Smallholder Horticulture Recovery & Inclusion" was also signed[46] and the Credit Fund for the Sub-regional Coordinator for the GCC and Yemen was renewed.

UNICEF for example announced two of their international advocates at Expo 2020 Dubai during the official ceremony for World Children's Day, where the first Emirati was selected for the role.

[51] Participants at the Programme included:[15] 142 countries were represented at the Programme:[15] Benin,  Botswana,  Brunei,  Burkina Faso,  Burundi,  Cameroon,  Chad,  Comoros,  Democratic Republic of the Congo,  Cote d'Ivoire,  Djibouti,  Ethiopia,  Gabon,  Gambia,  Ghana,  Guinea,  Kenya,  Lesotho,  Malawi,  Maldives,  Mali,  Mauritania,  Mauritius,  Mozambique,  Namibia,  Niger,  Nigeria,  Rwanda,  Senegal,  Seychelles,  Sierra Leone,  South Africa,  South Sudan,  Sudan,  Tanzania,  Togo,  Uganda,  Zambia,  Zimbabwe Afghanistan,  Azerbaijan,  Bangladesh,  Bhutan,  Cambodia,  China,  India,  Indonesia,  Japan,  South Korea,  Kyrgyzstan,  Malaysia,  Myanmar,    Nepal,  Pakistan,  Philippines,  Singapore,  Sri Lanka,  Tajikistan,  Thailand,  Vietnam Andorra,  Armenia,  Austria,  Belgium,  Bulgaria,  Croatia,  Cyprus,  Denmark,  Estonia,  Finland,  France,  Germany,  Greece,  Greenland,  Hungary,  Ireland,  Italy,  Latvia,  Lithuania,  Luxembourg,  Macedonia,  Netherlands,  Norway,  Poland,  Portugal,  Romania,  Russia,  Serbia,  Slovakia,  Slovenia,  Spain,  Sweden,   Switzerland,  Ukraine,  United Kingdom Antigua and Barbuda,  Argentina,  Bahamas,  Belize,  Brazil,  Chile,  Colombia,  Costa Rica,  Cuba,  Ecuador,  Guatemala,  Haiti,  Jamaica,  Mexico,  Panama,  Paraguay,  Peru,  Saint Lucia,  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,  Trinidad and Tobago,  Uruguay,  Venezuela Algeria,  Bahrain,  Egypt,  Iran,  Iraq,  Israel,  Jordan,  Kuwait,  Lebanon,  Libya,  Morocco,  Oman,  Palestine,  Saudi Arabia,  Syria,  Tunisia,  Turkey,  United Arab Emirates,  Yemen Canada,  United States Australia,  Fiji,  Marshall Islands,  New Zealand