The case descriptions of two adult education programs in Portual contained in this document are part of a set that reflects a cooperative effort by adult educators to increase international understanding of various educational programs for adults in their societal context. A face sheet for each program provides this information: name, organization, and address of the person who prepared the case description; program name or title; type of program; type of organization with which the case program is associated; and basic characteristics of service. The first of the two case descriptions, prepared by H.S. de Melo, discusses Management Groups as Method of Rural Extension; Study of Rural Extension Program Evaluation in the Agrarian Zone of Tras-os-Montes, was prepared by Artur F.A.C. Cristovao. In addition to the case descriptions, this document includes information on the World Perspective case study project, indexes of all cases by country and by category, and guidelines for contributors. (YLB)