In addition to CFRQ partners, FAO FRA works closely with several other international partners, such as the members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests on Forests as well as partners that contribute to specific technical aspects of the programme. For example, the latest FRA 2020 global remote sensing survey was conducted in close collaboration with over 800 specialists from 126 countries and institutional partners such as the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).

Similarly, the FRA special study on improving reporting on boreal primary forests was conducted in collaboration with a number of institutional partners, including, but not limited to, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Griffith University (Queensland, Australia), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), and FAO member states.