At the end of each year Lydian discloses the payments made to the communities.   

”Lydian’s access to its Amulsar project has been illegally blocked since June 2018. Despite the court rulings on the need for the relevant authorities to restore Lydian’s access, the roads remained blocked. Nevertheless, Lydian continued to fulfill its contractual obligations and paid land rents to the community budgets. As part of its commitment to transparency,
 
In 2019, land rent money paid to all communities sums to $930,797, of which:

Jermuk/Gndevaz- $408,228
Zaritap/Saravan - $268,726
Gorayk - $253,844
 
Total land rent payments the Company has paid to the communities for the period of 2008-2019 was over $6 million dollars.
 
As provided by Armenian legislation, the Company has no right or leverage over how the money paid by the Company is used by local communities and administration.  However, local population has that right – to demand transparency and accountability on the use of land rent money.  
 
In the past, some communities invested land rent resources in rural infrastructure improvement. Gorayk, for one, fully upgraded the drinking water and sewage systems.  Lydian Armenia has not been provided with information on the use of over USD 6 million dollars paid to the municipal budgets in the past several years.  
 
As the year ends, we also sum up some available data on the out-migration in the Amulsar adjacent communities. A notable increase of both temporary and permanent migration is reported in all communities since the blockades started: 2.6 times increase for both categories in 2019 compared to 2017 (390 vs 148; 90 vs 34 respectively).  A total of 390 people out-migrated for temporary job opportunities and 90 out-migrated permanently in 2019.

This data is collected from the respective communities: Employment Center in Jermuk and local government and community representatives in other communities.  It should be noted that migration figures fluctuate over time as people come and go.  The numbers below are based on the best knowledge of community representatives for the given time period and can change in future. However, lack of employment and business opportunities and increase of migration as a result is quite visible from the available data thus far”, the press release reads.