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Building the climate resilience of African cities is a complex challenge that requires knowledge, policy and practice to be brought closer together to shape research and actions. One way of doing so is to establish intermediaries to work between academia and government. Within the Future Resilience for African Cities and Lands () project, it is used the model of embedded researchers (ERs) - individuals employed by the university in each city to work part of their time within the city government to identify and implement a collaborative research (or knowledge co-production) agenda. The Working Paper discusses the intricacies of these arrangements, their benefits, and challenges, and the lessons learnt. With certain enabling conditions, the ER approach has proven to be an effective means of bringing the worlds of climate science and urban decision-making closer together in the pursuit of building more climate-resilient cities. The findings indicate that the approach is transferable to other contexts and other problem spaces. The ER approach goes beyond a focus on what knowledge is needed, in the FRACTAL case to act on climate risks and vulnerabilities in cities, to attend to how knowledge is generated and who is involved. The ER approach contributes to making both academic research and public decision-making more legible and thereby more accessible and accountable.