A/HRC/28/59/Add.1 The Independent Expert identifies several good practices in the Icelandic crisis that States facing a financial crisis can adopt to prevent negative human rights impacts in the context of economic adjustment programmes. He concludes that international organizations and other countries can learn from the particular path that Iceland chose, which included protecting its core social welfare system, making efforts to ensure citizen participation in the decision-making process and endeavouring to establish political, administrative and judicial accountability. 2