A/HRC/41/39/Add.4 economic infrastructure development projects, building capacity for the communities in terms of local production, building robust and peaceful communities and better access to public service. 23. Under the heading “6. Key Social Protection Programmes” para 1 Lao PDR has a comprehensive social security system that prioritizes formal economy sectors first, according to its capacity. The sentence “If a family is poor because they are lazy, we will not support them”, this could be a break done in translation, it is not that the local administrations that do not want to support poor families, it is rather the fact that they do not have the capacity to do so. The government provides all the support and services that it can and where appropriate, while it has to also rather emphasize on teaching people how to make a better living rather than total reliance approach. 24. Under the subheading “Education” para 1 In reality, the Government of Lao PDR has always attached importance to the Education Sector with the target of 17% of the State Budget to sufficiently fund the education and sports development with quality. At present, the said target has yet to be met due to many factors. 25. Under the subheading “Education” para 4 last sentence Regarding the Ministry of Education and Sports’ policy towards students from poor families, the information reported by the Special Rapporteur is not totally accurate. The Ministry of Education and Sports has implemented its policy for students in poverty in accordance with the Decree on Allowances for the Students in Poverty and Disadvantaged in the Common Education System No. 385/Gov, dated 15/12/2017, which states that each year the Ministry of Education and Sports shall provide special allowances for 1,000 students in poverty, each year this number of supported students shall increase by 1,000 students, while the supported students will continue to be supported throughout their secondary school years. The details are as follows: - Including allowances for students in primary schools of 100,000 Kip/person/month in the entire school year (from September to May of the year after) continuously until the students graduate from primary school. - For secondary school students, the allowance is 150,000 Kip/person/month in the entire school year (from September to May of the year after) continuously until the students graduate from secondary school. The comparison in percentage of the students in poverty who received the allowance of 0.0006% of the total 1.45 million students is not a very fair comparison, as not all 1.45 million students are in poverty. 26. Under the subheading “Education” para 5 on primary school students dropped out rate The Ministry of Education and Sports suggests that the Special Rapporteur should use the data from our Annual Report of 2017-2018 and Development Plan for 2018-2019 of the Education and Sports Sector as follows: 6 - Net Enrollment in primary level: 98.8% - Survival rate: 82.2% - Completion rate: 104.5% (compared to new enrollments of Grade 5)