Ahmed Shawka

Ahmed Shawka is an Iraqi lawyer, Fulbright Scholar, and evaluation consultant working at the intersection of localisation, protection, access to justice, and institutional learning. He brings deep legal and contextual understanding of Iraq’s humanitarian and institutional landscape, combined with practical experience engaging civil society, government counterparts, United Nations entities, donors, implementing partners, and community-based services.

Ahmed supports evaluation and research assignments through stakeholder mapping, key-informant interviews, document review, evidence synthesis, and the development of practical recommendations for programme improvement. His recent work includes contributions to UNFPA evaluation processes focused on localisation, partnership performance, accountability, gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health, and community-facing protection programming.

His experience includes the design and implementation of legal aid and access-to-justice programming for internally displaced people and vulnerable communities in Iraq. He has supervised legal teams under a USAID-funded access-to-justice programme, helping structure legal clinic services, referral pathways, legal counselling, case follow-up, documentation, donor reporting, and programme learning. He has also worked as a consultant with the Danish Refugee Council in Iraq, bringing legal and protection expertise to work with displacement-affected communities navigating complex institutional and service systems.

Ahmed holds an LL.M. from Syracuse University College of Law as a Fulbright Scholar, a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Babylon, and a certificate in Leadership and Public Policy from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the Iraqi Bar Association and works in Arabic and English.