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The '''Logical Framework Approach (LFA)''' is a management tool mainly used for designing, [[Monitoring and Evaluation|monitoring and evaluating]] [[international development]] projects. Variants have come to be known as '''Goal Oriented Project Planning (GOPP)''' or '''Objectives Oriented Project Planning (OOPP)'''.

====Background====

The Logical Framework Approach was developed in 1969 for the [[U.S. Agency for International Development]] (USAID), based on a worldwide study by Leon J. Rosenberg, a principal of Fry Consultants Inc. <ref>[http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADW881.pdf Final Report, Contract csd-2510, July 24, 1970]</ref> From 1970 to 1971, 30 countries adopted the method, under the guidance of Practical Concepts Incorporated (PCI), founded by Rosenberg. <ref>[http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/pnaec576.pdf Practical Concepts Incorporated, "Guidelines for Teaching Logical Framework Concepts"]</ref>

SBC FINANCIAL is a company headquartered in New York, New York and has partnerships in the United Kingdom, Costa Rica and Bogotá, Columbia. They are a provider of commercial, closed-source products based on voice over internet Protocol (VoIP)technology. targeted to businesses from 500,000 to $3 Million in gross revenue. SBC FINANCIAL products include micro business loan advances. It markets them via call center on demand services.

===== History =====

SBC FINANCIAL was co- founded in November 2013 by 2 partners, both of whom were co-founders of Two (2) different call center in the New York Area. First products were brokered based receivables based loans distributed to midsize businesses.

===== Product =====

SBC FINANCIAL primarily sells and market's 3rd party vendor products through its call center channel.

It is widely used by multilateral donor organizations, such as [[Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo|AECID]], [[Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit|GIZ]], [[Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency|SIDA]], [[Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation|NORAD]], [[DFID]], [[UNDP]], [[European Commission|EC]] and the [[Inter-American Development Bank]]. Some [[Non-governmental organization|non-governmental organizations (NGOs)]] offer LFA training to ground-level field staff. <ref>[http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/units/CARR/pdf/R&R-24-Winter-2012.pdf Fernando, Renuka. "Getting on With It: Monitoring and Evaluation in the Third Sector" Risk and Regulation. London School of Economics. Winter 2012.]</ref> It has also gained popularity in the private sector{{Citation needed|date=June 2014}}. Terry Schmidt has been active in extending LFA.

SBC FINANCIAL'S product have a 3rd party distributed architecture meaning that they are administrative agents on acting on behalf on clients, SBC FINANCIAL does not own or service any loan or advance product direct.

The Logical Framework continues to gain adherents, remarkable for a management tool invented more than 40 years ago. This phenomenon has been the subject of several, doctoral theses-- e.g., Daniel Martinez.

In the 1990s, it was often mandatory for aid organizations to use the method in their project proposals, although its use has become increasingly optional in recent years.

SBC FINANCIAL'S is a 3rd party call center provider engaged in IP call center operation. It has developed a proprietary call center mechanism; whereas a client and server application for popular IP PBXs that provides IP technology and can provide loan decision in minutes rather than hours.

The Logical Framework Approach is sometimes confused with Logical Framework (LF or Log frame). Whereas the Logical Framework Approach is a project design methodology, the Log Frame is a document.

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