Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

• Jones, S. (2015). Bridging political economy analysis and critical institutionalism: an approach to help analyse institutional change for rural water services. International Journal of the Commons, 9(1), pp.65-86.
• Jones, S. (2013). How can NGOs help promote sustainable rural water services? An analysis of WaterAid’s approach to supporting local governments in Mali. Water Alternatives, 6(3), pp.350-366.
• Jones, S. (2013). Sharing the recurrent costs of rural water services in Mali: an analysis in four local government areas supported by WaterAid. Waterlines, 32(4), pp.295-307.
• Jones, S. (2011). Participation as citizenship or payment? A case study of rural drinking water governance in Mali. Water Alternatives, 4(1), pp.54–71.

Theses

• Jones, S. (2013). Sharing the recurrent costs of rural water supply in Mali: the role of WaterAid in promoting sustainable service delivery. PhD thesis, University of London.

Discussion papers

• Jones, S., Greene, N., Hueso, A., Sharp, H. & Kennedy-Walker, R. (2013). Learning from failure: lessons for the sanitation sector, London: UK Sanitation Community of Practice (SanCoP).
• Jones, S. & Greene, N. (2013). Crossfire: Can ‘admitting failure’ help the WASH sector learn and improve its work? Waterlines, 32(2), pp.100-105.

Book chapters

• Jones, S. (2014). Can you please all of the people some of the time? Ethical challenges in making research relevant to academia, policy and practice – Experiences from working with an international NGO in Mali. In J. Lunn, ed. Ethical challenges and dilemmas of fieldwork in the Global South. Routledge.

Conference papers

• Jones, S. (2015). Adapting the life-cycle costs approach for rural water supply in DRC through the DRC WASH Consortium. 38th WEDC International Conference. Loughborough, UK.
• Jones, S., Barasa, C. & Rhodes, B. (2015). Analysing and supporting spare parts and maintenance supply chains for handpumps in rural DRC. 38th WEDC International Conference. Loughborough, UK.
• Jones, S. (2011). Promoting self-supply of improved traditional wells in Mali: a comparison of two approaches. In Proceedings of the 6th Rural Water Supply Network Forum 2011. Rural Water Supply in the 21st Century: Myths of the Past, Visions for the Future. Kampala, Uganda: Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN).
• Sidibé, M. & Jones, S. (2011). Le partage de coûts récurrents pour assurer la durabilité des services d’eau potable dans la commune rurale de Dandougou Fakala au Mali. In Proceedings of the 6th Rural Water Supply Network Forum 2011. Rural Water Supply in the 21st Century: Myths of the Past, Visions for the Future. Kampala, Uganda: Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN).
• Jones, S. (2010). Community financing of handpump maintenance: a case study in rural Mali. In Proceedings of the IRC Symposium 2010. Pumps, Pipes and Promises – Costs, Finances and Accountability for Sustainable WASH Services. The Hague, The Netherlands: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre.

Policy reports and briefing notes

• WaterAid in Mali (2010). Briefing Note – The challenges of community participation: a case study of Yélékébougou district. A WaterAid in Mali report by Stephen Jones. Mali: WaterAid.
• WaterAid in Mali (2010). Briefing Note – Community financing of handpump maintenance: a case study of Yélékébougou district. A WaterAid in Mali report by Stephen Jones. Mali: WaterAid.
• WaterAid (2010). Making parliaments work for WASH: Scoping study on parliamentary engagement. A WaterAid report by Stephen Jones. London: WaterAid.

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